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The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind (Penguin Science) Book

Describes various facets 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.Read More

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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 marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin its uniqueness to humanity its 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".

  • Penguin

    Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds. The ability comes so naturally that we are apt to forget what a miracle it is.

  • 0140175296
  • 9780140175295
  • Steven Pinker
  • 27 February 2003
  • Penguin
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 496
  • New Ed

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