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The language instinct / Steven Pinker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinker, Steven, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Biolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 494 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First HarperPerennial edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperPerennial, 1995.
- Summary:
- In "The Language Instinct," Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, 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, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, 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 in bats.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : W. Morrow and Co., c1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-472) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0060976519
- OCLC:
- 31374737
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