The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Bibliographic Collection:
Anthropogeny
Publication Type: Book
Authors: Pinker, Steven
Year of Publication: 2007
Edition: 1st Perennial Modern Classics Ed.
Number of Pages: 526
Publisher: HarperPerennial Modern Classics
City: New York
Publication Language: eng
ISBN Number: 0061336461
Keywords: Biolinguistics., Language and languages
Abstract:
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 Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.
Label: 1994
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