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Old 07-02-2010, 12:52 PM   #594
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Originally Posted by TimMason View Post
If you are interested in questions like this, a very good place to start is Steven Pinker's 'The Language Instinct'. He looks into the relationship between thought and language. Surprisingly, perhaps, you can have both thought without language and language without thought. He talks about it here.
Pinker is a wonderful speaker. I posted his "Myth of Violence" TED talk at MR about a year ago. Thanks for that.
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