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9780060958336

The Language Instinct

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  • ISBN13:

    9780060958336

  • ISBN10:

    0060958332

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-10-19
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

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Summary

In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Steven 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 bats. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.

Table of Contents

Preface xiii
An Instinct to Acquire an Art
1(11)
Chatterboxes
12(32)
Mentalese
44(30)
How Language Works
74(45)
Words, Words, Words
119(34)
The Sounds of Silence
153(37)
Talking Heads
190(41)
The Tower of Babel
231(34)
Baby Born Talking---Describes Heaven
265(37)
Language Organs and Grammar Genes
302(38)
The Big Bang
340(42)
The Language Mavens
382(37)
Mind Design
419(30)
Notes 449(20)
References 469(34)
Glossary 503(14)
Index 517

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