The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates Language

Pinker, Steven

ISBN 10: 0688121411 / ISBN 13: 9780688121419

Published by William Morrow & Co, 1994

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Publisher's gilt-titled cloth-backed boards. Some mottling to spine, slight foxing to block edge. Tight and unmarked. The DJ in mylar is price clipped. ; 6.25 X 1.75 X 9 inches; 494 pages. Seller Inventory # 41479

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Language Instinct How the Mind Creates ...

Publisher: William Morrow & Co

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

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

From the Back Cover:

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.