The Language Instinct
How the Mind Creates Language
first publication date: 1994
genre: essay
original title: The Language Instinct
original language: English
main subject: linguistics, psycholinguistics, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary psychology of language
followed by: How the Mind Works
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is a 1994 book by Steven Pinker, written for a general audience. Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity for language. He deals sympathetically with Noam Chomsky's claim that all human language shows evidence of a universal grammar, but dissents from Chomsky's skepticism that evolutionary theory can explain the human language instinct. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Editions
5- date of publication: 2000ISBN-13: 978-0-06-095833-6
- date of publication: 1994ISBN-13: 978-0-06-097651-4
- date of publication: 1994-02-01ISBN-13: 978-0-688-12141-9
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