The language instinct : How the mind creates language / steven pinker

By:

Pinker, Steven

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial ModernClassics, 2007.Description: xv, 526, 32 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780061336461

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

401 20

Contents:

Preface -- 1: Instinct to acquire an art -- 2: Chatterboxes -- 3: Mentalese -- 4: How language works -- 5: Words, words, words -- 6: Sounds of silence -- 7: Talking heads -- 8: Tower of Babel -- 9: Baby born talking-describes heaven -- 10: Language organs and grammar genes -- 11: Big bang -- 12: Language mavens -- 13: Mind design -- Notes -- References -- Glossary.

Summary: From the Publisher: In this classic, 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

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library General Stacks	401 / PI.L 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		006925

Includes bibliographical references (p. 469-502) and index.

From the Publisher: In this classic, 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

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