Wired for Sound
Daniel Dennett, 23 June 1994
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
by Steven Pinker.
Allen Lane, 493 pp., £20, April 1994,0 7139 9099 6 Show More
by Steven Pinker.
Allen Lane, 493 pp., £20, April 1994,
Patterns in the Mind: Language and Human Nature
by Ray Jackendoff.
Harvester, 256 pp., £11.95, October 1993,9780745009629 Show More
by Ray Jackendoff.
Harvester, 256 pp., £11.95, October 1993,
“... the human mind that linguists have always proclaimed to be the ultimate fruits of their inquiries. Ray Jackendoff, one of Chomsky’s star pupils but always a brave and independent thinker who never got swept up in the various intrigues and manias, and Steven Pinker, one of Chomsky’s star colleagues but also one who has staunchly resisted the local ... ”
