Pinker gives the example of a student " stubbornly " mishearing the chorus to I'm Your Venus as " I'm Your Penis ," and being surprised that the song was allowed on the radio.

Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ridiculed this example, claiming that this was a failing of human insight rather than language.

Pinker was named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential scientists and thinkers in the world in 2004 and one of Prospect and Foreign Policys 100 top public intellectuals in both years the poll was carried out, 2005 and 2008 ; in 2010 and 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.

Pinker said it was unlikely since the decline in violence happened too rapidly to be explained by genetic changes.

Webb was a stickler for accurate details, and Dragnet used many authentic touches, such as the LAPD's actual radio call sign ( KMA367 ), and the names of many real department officials, such as Ray Pinker and Lee Jones of the crime lab or Chief of Detectives ( and later LAPD Chief from 1967 – 69 ) Thad Brown.

When asked if Summers's talk was " within the pale of legitimate academic discourse ," Pinker responded " Good grief, shouldn't everything be within the pale of legitimate academic discourse, as long as it is presented with some degree of rigor?

Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker notes that the phrase may have originated from this practice, as at this time " cutting off someone's nose was the prototypical act of spite.

As connectionism became increasingly popular in the late 1980s, there was a reaction to it by some researchers, including Jerry Fodor, Steven Pinker and others.

Steven Pinker wrote he " was skeptical that any Englishman made that distinction in the past century.

Sir Christopher Meyer was appointed in 2002 following a brief period of interim chairmanship by Professor Robert Pinker, leaving in 2008.

Pinker writes that if everyone was equal regarding abilities it can be argued that it is only necessary to give everyone equal opportunity.

He went further saying " I was, and remain, perplexed by an attitude of ebullient optimism that ’ s particularly characteristic of Pinker ’ s book.

The CPH was developed further by Pinker ( 1994 ), who proposed that language acquisition is guaranteed during childhood, progressively jeopardized until puberty ends, and is improbable thereafter.

In his next mention, Pinker notes a Tad and Dixie scene: " When Dixie opens the door to Tad, she is stunned, because she thought he was dead ," says Pinker.

Steven Arthur Pinker ( born September 18, 1954 ) is a Canadian-born experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author.

In his book, The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker proposes the following: if we are not born with language, how can we be engineered to think in words alone?

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954 ), American cognitive scientist and popular science author

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954 ), Canadian-American psychologist, linguist and popular science author

* Steven Pinker ( born 1954, class of 1971 ) Harvard College experimental psychologist, cognitive scientist, linguist and popular science author.

* 1954 – Steven Pinker, Canadian-American psychologist and author

In the area of language acquisition, for example, some ( such as Steven Pinker ) have argued that specific information containing universal grammatical rules must be contained in the genes, whereas others ( such as Jeffrey Elman and colleagues in Rethinking Innateness ) have argued that Pinker's claims are biologically unrealistic.

Popular names in the discipline of psychology include George A. Miller, James McClelland, Philip Johnson-Laird, and Steven Pinker.

This stems from Gould's long-running public debate with E. O. Wilson and other evolutionary biologists over human sociobiology and its descendant evolutionary psychology, which Gould and Richard Lewontin opposed, but which Dennett advocated, together with Dawkins and Steven Pinker.

In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper " Natural Language & Natural Selection " which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.

* Pinker, S. ( 1994 ) The language instinct, HarperCollins, New York.

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

* Pinker, Steven ( 1994 ) The Language Instinct, William Morrow and Company.

Jaynes's theory has been influential to philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, psychologists such as Tim Crow and Steven Pinker, and psychiatrists such as Henry Nasrallah.

* Dronkers, N. F., Pinker, S. & Damasio, A .: Language and the Aphasias.

On the other hand, Steven Pinker has observed that mondegreen mishearings tend to be less plausible than the original lyrics, and that once a listener has " locked in " to a particular misheard interpretation of a song's lyrics, it can remain unquestioned, even when that plausibility becomes strained.

Some natural languages have become naturally " standardized " by children's natural tendency to correct for illogical grammar structures in their parents ' language, which can be seen in the development of pidgin languages into creole languages ( as explained by Steven Pinker in The Language Instinct ), but this is not the case in many languages, including constructed languages such as Esperanto, where strict rules are in place as an attempt to consciously remove such irregularities.

Steven Pinker has described two logical fallacies.

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

One tradition of interpretation exemplified by his critics such as Eric Lenneberg, Max Black and Steven Pinker attributes him a very strong view of linguistic determinism, according to which commensuration between conceptual schemes and translation between languages is impossible.

Still, detractors such as Eric Lenneberg, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker have criticized him for not being sufficiently clear in his formulation of how he meant language influences thought, and for not providing actual proof of his assumptions.

Universalist scholars such as Steven Pinker often see Malotki's study as a final refutation of Whorf's claim about Hopi, whereas relativist scholars such as John A Lucy and Penny Lee have criticized Malotki's study for mischaracterizing Whorf's claims and for forcing Hopi grammar into a pregiven model of analysis that doesn't fit the data.

For example, Steven Pinker argues in his book The Language Instinct that thought is independent of language, that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in " natural " language, i. e. any language that we actually communicate in ; rather, we think in a meta-language, preceding any natural language, called " mentalese.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.