The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language

Steven Pinker

494 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this "extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written" (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can cause ideas to ari...

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