The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Description: The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker Harper Perennial, 1995, 0060976519, Trade Paperback, Good condition, no underlining, no highlighting, spine and back cover crease, 494 pages. In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory ofhow children acquire language, 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, how it evolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. STEVEN PINKER is one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind. He has won several major awards for his teaching and his scientific research. Pinker is director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. CONTENTS 1. An Instinct to Acquire an Art 15 2. Chatterboxes 25 3. Mentalese 55 4. How Language Works 83 5. Words, Words, Words 126 6. The Sounds of Silence 158 7. Talking Heads 192 8. The Tower of Babel 231 9. Baby Born Talking—Describes Heaven 262 10. Language Organs and Grammar Genes 297 11. The Big Bang 332 12. The Language Mavens 370 13. Mind Design 404 Notes 431 References 447 Glossary 473 Index 485 nthdegree books

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