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In a paper co-authored with Kim, Prince, and Prasada, this thinker explored why "no mere mortal has ever flown out to left field." This thinker, again with Alan Prince, published a critique of the connectionist model of past-tense acquisition that he expanded into his book Words and Rules. This author likened music to "auditory cheesecake" in a discussion of music's role language acquisition in his How the (*) Mind Works and attacked those who deny the influence of human nature in another work. He compared a human's ability to acquire language to a spider's ability to weave webs or a beaver's ability to build dams in a 1994 work arguing that people are born with the capacity to learn language. For 10 points, name this Harvard linguist who penned The Blank Slate and The Language Instinct.
In a paper co-authored with Kim, Prince, and Prasada, this thinker explored why "no mere mortal has ever flown out to left field.
Steven Arthur Pinker