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Pinker, Steven, 1954-

The language instinct : how the mind creates language / Steven Pinker - First Perennial Classics edition - xv, 525 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Company, ©1994

Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-502) and index

TABLE OF CONTENTS --An instinct to acquire an ar t --Chatterboxes --Mentalese --How language works --Words, words, words --The sounds of silence --Talking heads --The tower of Babel --Baby born talking describes heaven --Language organs and grammar genes --The big bang --The language mavens --Mind design

The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language

ISBN: 0060958332 9780060958336

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Language and languages
Biolinguistics

LC Class. No.: P106 / .P47 2000