The language instinct : how the mind creates language
From the Publisher: In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of 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. 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. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published
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9780062032522, 0062032526
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Preface
1: Instinct to acquire an art
2: Chatterboxes
3: Mentalese
4: How language works
5: Words, words, words
6: Sounds of silence
7: Talking heads
8: Tower of Babel
9: Baby born talking-describes heaven
10: Language organs and grammar genes
11: Big bang
12: Language mavens
13: Mind design
Notes
References
Glossary
Index