Steven Pinker Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: b. September 18, 1954
Birthday: September 18
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.
source: Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK
topic: Running, White, Space, Sound Waves, Spoken Word, White Space
