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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language Paperback - 2000

by Steven Pinker


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"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." -- New York Times Book Review

The classic work on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind

In The Language Instinct, 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 Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.

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As you are reading these words, you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world.

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  • Title The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
  • Author Steven Pinker
  • Series Perennial Classics
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 7, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060958336 / 0060958332
  • Weight 1.04 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.31 x 1.23 in (20.32 x 13.49 x 3.12 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Language and languages, Biolinguistics
  • Dewey Decimal Code 400
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