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Words and Rules

Words and Rules
Steven Pinker

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language is a 1999 popular linguistics book by Steven Pinker about regular and irregular verbs.

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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to compute it.”

Steven Pinker book Words and Rules

Source: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

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“As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.”

Steven Pinker book Words and Rules

Source: Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (Basic Books, 1999), p. 84

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