num_pages: 526
description: "A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book." —  New York Times Book Review The classic work on the development of human language by the world’s leading expert on language and the mind In The Language Instinct , the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of 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.  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. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since  The Language Instinct  was first published.
language: English
title: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
titlecomplete: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
genres: Anthropology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Biology, Science, Nonfiction, Psychology, Language, Neuroscience, Evolution
ratings_count: 21516
series: Language and Human Nature Tetralogy
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: William James Book Award
publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics