The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Cover of the first edition
Author
Steven Pinker
Country
United States
Language
English
Subject
Psycholinguistics, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary psychology of language, linguistics
Published
1994 (William Morrow and Company)
Media type
Print
Pages
483
ISBN
0-688-12141-1
Followed by
How the Mind Works
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is a 1994 book by Steven Pinker, written for a general audience. Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity for language. He deals sympathetically with Noam Chomsky's claim that all human language shows evidence of a universal grammar, but dissents from Chomsky's skepticism that evolutionary theory can explain the human language instinct.
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