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The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language

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In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved.  With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday 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 like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats.  The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.

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Steven Pinker is professor and director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • PublisherWilliam Morrow & Co
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0688121411
  • ISBN 13 9780688121419
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages494
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