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On language mavens: Bolinger, 1980; Bryson, 1990; Lakoff, 1990.

History of prescriptive grammar: Bryson, 1990; Crystal, 1987; Lakoff, 1990; McCrum, Cran, & MacNeil, 1986; Nunberg, 1992.

Write, wrote; bite, bote
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Everyone and their brother:
LINGUIST
electronic bulletin board, Oct. 9, 1991.

A fifth of English verbs were nouns: Prasada & Pinker, 1993.

Flying out and Sally Ride: Kim, Pinker, Prince, & Prasada, 1991; Kim, Marcus, Pinker, Hollander, & Coppola, in press.

Bernstein on
broadcasted
: Bernstein, 1977, p. 81.

Wordwatchers: Quine, 1987; Thomas, 1990.

The
Boston Globe
on
get your goat
: December 23, 1992.

Taking it on the lam: Allen, 1983.

Bad grammar leading to violence: Bolinger, 1980, pp. 4–6.

Shock-grammarian: Simon, 1980, pp. 97, 165–166.

Crazy English: Lederer, 1990, pp. 15–21.

Slurvian: Lederer, 1987, pp. 114–117.

Howlers: Lederer, 1987; Brunvand, 1989.

Urban legends and xeroxlore: Brunvand, 1989.

Language sages: Bernstein, 1977; Safire, 1991.

Child language transcripts: MacWhinney, 1991.

Me and Jennifer/Between you and I
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Low-lifes, cut-throats, ne’er-do-wells, and other disreputable compounds: Quirk et al., 1985.

Barzun on parts of speech: quoted in Bolinger, 1980, p. 169.

Adjectives from participles: Bresnan, 1982.

Language as a window into human nature: Rymer, 1993.

Sentence understanding, relativism, and fiberglass powerboats: Fodor, 1985, p. 5.

Standard Social Science Model: Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; Degler, 1991; Brown, 1991.

“Biological determinism”: Gould, 1981; Lewontin, Rose, & Kamin, 1984; Kitcher, 1985; Chorover, 1979; See Degler, 1991.

Educating either sex: Mead, 1935. Training a dozen infants: Watson, 1925.

Evolutionary psychology: Darwin, 1872, 1874; James, 1892/1920; Marr, 1982; Symons, 1979, 1992; Sperber, 1985, in press; Tooby & Cosmides, 1990a, b, 1992; Jackendoff, 1987, 1992; Gazzaniga, 1992; Keil, 1989; Gallistel, 1990; Cosmides & Tooby, 1987; Shepard, 1987; Rozin & Schull, 1988; See also Konner, 1982, and the contributions to Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992, and Hirschfeld & Gelman, in press.

Merchants of astonishment: Geertz, 1984.

Mead in Samoa: Freeman, 1983.

Anthropologists swimming through metaculture: Brown, 1991; Sperber, 1982; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992, p. 92.

Universal People: Brown, 1991.

Strictures on similarity: Goodman, 1972, p. 445.

Innate similarity space: Quine, 1969.

Artificial learning systems: Pinker, 1979, 1989; Pinker & Prince, 1988; Prasada & Pinker, 1993.

Modules of mind: Chomsky, 1975, 1980b, 1988; Marr, 1982; Tooby & Cosmides, 1992; Jackendoff, 1992; Sperber, in press. For a different conception, see Fodor, 1983, 1985.

Biological erudition of hunter-gatherers: Konner, 1982; Kaplan, 1992.

Folk biological taxonomies: Berlin, Breedlove, & Raven, 1973; Atran, 1987, 1990.

The cerebral infant: Spelke et al., 1992; Wynn, 1992; Flavell, Miller, & Miller, 1993.

Skunks turning into raccoons: Keil, 1989.

Pawpaws and pineapples among the Yoruba: Jeyifous, 1986.

Flamingos, blackbirds, and bats: Gelman & Markman, 1987.

Flower power: Kaplan, 1992; see also Orians & Heerwagen, 1992.

Folk science turning into science: Carey, 1985; Keil, 1989; Atran, 1990. Analogy and metaphor in mathematics and physical science: Gentner & Jeziorski, 1989; Lakoff, 1987. Stimulating our mental modules: Tooby & Cosmides, 1990b; Barkow, 1992.

Innateness versus heritability: Tooby & Cosmides, 1990a, 1992.

Universal human nature and unique individuals: Tooby & Cosmides, 1990a, 1992.

Sex differences in the psychology of sex: Symons, 1979, 1980, 1992; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Wilson & Daly, 1992.

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