Get to know Pinker better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Pinker in a sentence
Related words
Pinker meaning
comparative form of pink: more pink
Using Pinker
- The main meaning on this page is: comparative form of pink: more pink
- In the example corpus, pinker often appears in combinations such as: steven pinker, pinker and, pinker pinker.
Context around Pinker
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pinker
- In this selection, "pinker" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, susan, steven, 000, plate, criticises and architect stand out and add context to how "pinker" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 000 pinker pinker plate on and 100 000 pinker pinker plate. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pinker" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pinker
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
My name is Susan Pinker. (5 words)
His parents were Roslyn and Harry Pinker. (7 words)
I had a chat with Dale Pinker from Forex Analytix earlier today. (12 words)
In 1989 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense (a textbook problem in language acquisition), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense. (42 words)
Still, it is the application of human effort—whether advanced by enlightenment values, as posited by Pinker or by religious values as posited by Baeck—that creates the progress that is demonstrable through modern history. (35 words)
In The Stuff of Thought (2007), Pinker looks at a wide range of issues around the way words related to thoughts on the one hand, and to the world outside ourselves on the other. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Earlier on TAB Cranbourne Cup weekend, ‘No Effort’ claimed Friday night’s $100,000 Pinker Pinker plate on another perfect day for racing.
Further, Aleksander writes that while Pinker criticises some attempts to explain language processing with neural nets, Pinker later makes use of a neural net to create past tense verb forms correctly.
One prominent opponent of Pinker's view is Geoffrey Sampson whose 1997 book, Educating Eve: The 'Language Instinct' Debate has been described as the "definitive response" to Pinker's book. citation citation.
Nikki Pinker, a founding stallholder from Frocester Fayre, reminisced about the market’s humble beginnings in 1999.
Still, it is the application of human effort—whether advanced by enlightenment values, as posited by Pinker or by religious values as posited by Baeck—that creates the progress that is demonstrable through modern history.
Guests on the show include author and illustrator Jonny Sun, psychologist Susan Pinker, architect Grace Kim and writer Suleika Jaouad.
He makes his argument with panache, however, roving millennia to use evidence from hunter-gatherer societies and modern examples, while taking on the theories of writers such as Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker.
My name is Susan Pinker.
I had a chat with Dale Pinker from Forex Analytix earlier today.
Mr. Pinker, who urges students to accept that data is almost always more reliable than intuition, followed the polls that showed Mr. Trump at the top of the Republican field.
Gates said he mostly agrees with Pinker's observations, but believes the author is too optimistic about artificial intelligence.
Pinker is particularly sharp on the dangers of ignoring or overriding the systems that make nuclear war unlikely.
To that end, the High School Impact Sub-Committee, chaired by Ruthy Rosenberg and Melanie Pinker, continues to engage local teens in educational programming about Israel.
Another major theme in Pinker's theories is that human cognition works, in part, by combinatorial symbol-manipulation, not just associations among sensory features, as in many connectionist models.
But Pinker and Bloom argue that the organic nature of language strongly suggests that it has an adaptational origin.
His parents were Roslyn and Harry Pinker.
In 1989 Pinker and Alan Prince published an influential critique of a connectionist model of the acquisition of the past tense (a textbook problem in language acquisition), followed by a series of studies of how people use and acquire the past tense.
In 1990, Steven Pinker and Paul Bloom published their paper "Natural Language and Natural Selection" citation which strongly argued for an adaptationist approach to language origins.
In psycholinguistics, Pinker became known early in his career for promoting computational learning theory as a way to understand language acquisition in children.
In The Stuff of Thought (2007), Pinker looks at a wide range of issues around the way words related to thoughts on the one hand, and to the world outside ourselves on the other.
Common combinations with pinker
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- steven pinker 3×
- pinker and 3×
- pinker pinker 2×
- susan pinker 2×
- pinker is 2×
- pinker in 2×