The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

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ISBN 10: 0688121411 ISBN 13: 9780688121419

Published by William Morrow and Company, New York, 1994

Language: English

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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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William Morrow and Company, New York

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1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

0688121411

ISBN 13

9780688121419

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Hardcover

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1st Edition

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Very Good

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Very Good

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

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