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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates the Gift of Language

Steven Pinker
494 pages
William Morrow & Company; 1st edition
Feb 1994
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In this "extremely valuable book, very informative, and very well written" (Noam Chomsky), one of the greatest thinkers in the field of linguistics explains how language works--how people, ny making noises with their mouths, can cause ideas to arise in other people's minds.

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