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

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

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Presented for the first time in a dedicated volume