'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 marvelously readable book...illuminates every facet of human language: its biological origin, its uniqueness to humanity, its 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".
| ISBN | 0140175296 | | Weight (grammes) | 341 | | ISBN13 | 9780140175295
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Series title | Penguin science | | Imprint | Penguin Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780140291230 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Publication date | 30 Mar 1995 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | DEWEY | 401 | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | Academic level | General | | Pages | 496 | |
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An instinct to acquire and art; chatterboxes; mentalese; how language works; words, words, words; the sounds of silence; talking heads; the Tower of Babel; baby born talking - describes heaven; language organs and grammar genes; the Big Bang; the language mavens; mind design.
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