学术访谈|Steven Pinker：语言学是了解人类大脑的窗口

今天推出Steven Pinker 的访谈：Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain 

In this talk, he is going to speak to you about language. He is actually not a linguist, but a cognitive scientist. He is not so much interested as language as an object in its own right, but as a window to the human mind. Language is one of the fundamental topics in the human sciences. It’s the trait that most conspicuously distinguishes humans from other species, it’s essential to human cooperation; we accomplish amazing things by sharing our knowledge or coordinating our actions by means of words.