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The Mind of a Savant: Language, Learning and Modularity

ISBN: 978-0-631-19017-2
Paperback
268 pages
February 1995, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • provides insight into the mind of one unique individual and simultaneously casts light on the nature of language and thought in general

  • exploits recent developments in both linguistics and psychology to make an essential contribution to the whole field of cognitive science

  • raises fascinating issues about the relation between cognition and language through an in-depth case study

  • provides new and important evidence concerning the modularity of mind, invariant principles of language, and their role in first and second language acquisition, as well as the interaction of pragmatic and conceptual factors in language use
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