Description
In this classic, the world's leading expert on language and the 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 classic book on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind.
Endorsements
The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association.
The Language Instinct received the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.