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The Language Instinct

Paperback • 2007 • English

The Language Instinct

By Steven Pinker

2 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psy...Show more

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9780061336461

Publisher

HarperCollins

Published year

2007

Language

English

Original title

The Language Instinct

Format

Paperback

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