The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and The Mind by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and The Mind

Steven Pinker

494 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Everyone has questions about language. Some are from everyday experience: Why do immigrants struggle with a new language, only to have their fluent children ridicule their grammatical errors? Why can't computers converse with us? Why is the hockey...

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