{"product_id":"storage-and-computation-in-the-language-faculty-9781402005275","title":"Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): S. G. Nooteboom\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical \u0026amp; Comparative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery now and again I receive a lengthy manuscript from a kind of theoretician known to psychiatrists as the \"triangle people\" - kooks who have independently discovered that everything in the universe comes in threes (solid, liquid, gas; protons, neutrons, electrons; the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost; Moe, Larry, Curly; and so on) . At the risk of sounding like a triangle person, let me explain why I think that the topic of this volume - - storage and computation in the language fac- ulty - though having just two sides rather than three, is the key to understanding every interesting issue in the study of language. I will begin with the fundamental scientific problem in linguistics: explaining the vast expressive power of language. What is the trick behind our ability to filleach others' heads with so many different ideas? I submit there is not one trick but two, and they have been emphasized by different thinkers throughout the history of linguistics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45282871869591,"sku":"9781402005275","price":3633.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781402005275.webp?v=1769303431","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/storage-and-computation-in-the-language-faculty-9781402005275","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}