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In this title, MIT Professor Steven Pinker explains the origins of language and its evolution, the instinctive way we use language, and the relationships between 'proper' languages and slang, pidgins, and other 'improper' versions.
| Size | | Length: | 525 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"...simply the best popular science book I have read in years.... He takes us way beyond Chomsky."
Spectator - Simon Jenkins (11/18/1995)
"...a wonderfully accessible version of the theory that 'language is no more a cultural invention than is upright posture'..."
Times Literary Supplement - Paul Muldoon (12/01/1995)
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