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Knowing a language is knowing how to translate mentalese into words and back
Drawn from what Steven Pinker said
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- Steven Pinker Cognitive scientist and author at Harvard
Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa.
Where this was said
↗The Language Instinct (HarperPerennial, 1995; first published 1994)archive.org
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