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

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

448 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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The classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it work...

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