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The language instinct : How the mind creates language
Publication details: London Penguin Books 2015Description: 524pISBN:- 9780141980775
- 401.000000Â PIN
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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
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| 394.12 MIN Sweetness and power | 394.12 POL The omnivores dilemma | 401 CHO On language : Chomskys classic works Language and responsibility and Reflections on Language in one volume | 401 PIN The language instinct : How the mind creates language | 401.41 JAW The discourse reader | 401.41 KRI The content analysis reader | 401.41 MAC How to do critical discourse analysis : |
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
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