Why Do Kids Say Goed and Brang?

Words and Rules The Ingredients of Language. Steven Pinker. Basic Books, New York, 1999. 362 pp. $26, C$39.50. ISBN 0-465-07269-0. Pinker presents a popular exposition of his research into how children learn language. Although his account, focused on English past-tense verb forms, is engaging and informative, our reviewers argue that it does not grant neural network models the importance they warrant.