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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates LanguageIn The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, weaves his vast knowledge of language into a compelling theory: that language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats. Along the way, The Language Instinct lucidly explains the important issues your students need to know about language: how it works, how it evolved, how children learn it, how

In The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at MIT, weaves his vast knowledge of language into a compelling theory: that language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar in bats.

Along the way, The Language Instinct lucidly explains the important issues your students need to know about language: how it works, how it evolved, how children learn it, how the brain computes it, and how it changes.

"A brilliant, witty, and altogether satisfying book."--New York Times Book Review

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 09/04/2007
ISBN: 9780061336461
Pages: 576
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.30w x 1.10d
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I mostly used this book for the practice questions, which aligned with all the topics we discussed in class. This book was organized in a way that made sense and followed my professor’s syllabus. Definitely worth the investment if you want to practice essay questions for torts!
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