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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics)
 
 
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) [Paperback]

Steven Pinker
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'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent 'A marvellously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - Nature --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Science Is...
According to Steven PInker, science is an institution that fosters the instinct to make sense of the world while discouraging the instinct to deceive ourselves and one another. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Steven Pinker is a best-selling author and Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for cognitive Neuroscience at MIT. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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