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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Cover of the first edition
AuthorSteven Pinker
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectPsycholinguistics, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary psychology of language, linguistics
Published1994 (William Morrow and Company)
Media typePrint
Pages483
ISBN0-688-12141-1
Followed byHow 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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