TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinker,Steven
TI  - The language instinct: how the mind creates language 
SN  - 0060958332
AV  - P106 .P47 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Perennial Classics
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Biolinguistics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -