The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Steven Pinker

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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

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

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