Name: Steven Pinker on Language Pragmatics
Uploaded: 2012-02-17T19:12:37-05:00
Duration: 3 min 16 s

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Steven Pinker is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He grew up in Montreal and earned his BA from McGill and his PhD[…]

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