Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

male, 55 years old
linguist, Cognitive scientist, TheLanguageInstinct, Harvard University faculty, scientist, evolutionary psychology…language development in child, The Blank Slate, language development in children, language development, how the mind works
Steven Pinker , a native of Montreal, received his BA from McGill University in 1976 and his PhD in psychology from Harvard in 1979. After teaching...
Geoffrey Sampson

Geoffrey Sampson

male
university of sussex, Psycholinguistics, TheLanguageInstinct, The 'Language Instinct' Debate, Psychological nativism, Educating Eve
Geoffrey Sampson is Professor of Natural Language Computing in the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex, England. He most recently...

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

female
Great Ape Trust, Kanzi, bonobos, Panbanisha, Great Ape language, Panzee and Panbanisha…TheLanguageInstinct
Sue Savage-Rumbaugh is a primatologist most famous for her work with two bonobos, Kanzi and Panbanisha, investigating their apparent use of "Great...
Eric Lenneberg

Eric Lenneberg

male, deceased (1975)
Harvard University, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Michigan, George Miller, linguistics…language acquisition, TheLanguageInstinct, Biological Foundations of Language
Eric Heinz Lenneberg was a linguist who pioneered ideas on language acquisition and cognitive psychology, particularly in terms of the concept of...
Chad Rouse

Chad Rouse

male, 28 years old (Alpharetta, Georgia, United States)
married, Brigham Young University, Mormon, in college, athletic, Pisces…likes saves the day music, likes The Girl with the Pearl Earing (movie), likes the broadway music, likes "The Language Instinct" (book)
I am married to the most gorgeous woman in the world. We have a beautiful baby girl named Bethany Autumn. I am in school studying Radiation Oncology.