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Pinker Steven

The language instinct : How the mind creates language - London Penguin Books 2015 - 524p

Summary :
Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'
- Independent
'A marvellously readable book... illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - Nature

ISBN: 9780141980775

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Biolinguistics - Language & Languages - Philosophy2. Pscyholinguistics - Linguistics 3. Instinct - Language Acquisition

Dewey Class. No.: 401.000000 / PIN