num_pages: 496
description: In The Language Instinct , Steven Pinker, well-known for his revolutionary theory of how children acquire language, lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved. With wit, education, and deft use of everyday examples of humor and wordplay, Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats.
language: English
title: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
titlecomplete: The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
genres: Anthropology, Language, Biology, Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology, Nonfiction, Evolution, Neuroscience
ratings_count: 21517
series: Language and Human Nature Tetralogy
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: William James Book Award
publisher: HarperPerennial