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

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

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nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 exa...

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