Book description
'Dazzling...Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as
innate to us as flying is to geese...Words can hardly do justice to
the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'
- Independent
'A marvellously readable book...illuminates every facet of human
language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, it
acquisition by children, its grammatical structure, the production and
perception of speech, the pathology of language disorders and the
unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects' - Nature
Steven Pinker is a best-selling author and Professor of Psychology
and Director of the Center for cognitive Neuroscience at MIT.
