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''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

The Language Instinct

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A Paperback / softback by Steven Pinker

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    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 02/04/2015
    ISBN13: 9780141980775, 978-0141980775
    ISBN10: 014198077X
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    Dictionaries, Reference & Language Philosophy of language Psycholinguistics Politics, Philosophy & Society Psychology

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    ''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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