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The language instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Pinker, Steven, 1954- is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Preface... I have never met a person who is not interested in language. I wrote this book to try to satisfy that curiosity. Language is beginning to submit to that uniquely satisfying kind of understanding that we call science, but the news has been kept a secret. For the language lover, I hope to show that there is a world of elegance and richness in quotidian speech that far outshines the local curiosities of etymologies, unusual words, and fine points of usage. For the reader of popular science, I hope to explain what is behind the recent discoveries (or, in many cases, nondiscoveries) reported in the press: universal deep structures, brainy babies, grammar genes, artifically intelligent computers, neural networks, signing chimps, talking Neanderthals, idiot savants, feral children, paradoxical brain damage, identical twins separated at birth, color pictures of the thinking brain, and the search for the mother of all languages. I also hope to answer many natural questions about languages, like why there are so many of them, why they are so hard for adults to learn, and why no one seems to know the plural of Walkman.

Who reads The language instinct: How the Mind Creates Language?

Author

Pinker, Steven, 1954-

Publisher

William Morrow and Company

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060958336

Category

science

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.05 / 5 (181 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14