false 5755 14 <P>In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved.  With wit, erudition, and deft use it everyday 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 like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats.  <I>The Language Instinct</I> received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.</P> 2422982 book 1994 The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) total:1450|5:498|4:651|3:255|2:39|1:7| 1450 5944 2694 171 5 2 false false Wed Feb 25 05:43:05 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 18:57:57 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 05:43:05 -0800 2009 “I don’t know. I remember being so confused during the first day, not understanding a single word. But not so long after that, I was able to speak in Dutch. ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Mar 05 07:29:48 -0800 2009 Wed Jun 24 06:22:34 -0700 2009
Now that I have finished it (about two weeks ago) I can finally write something more about it.

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Middle was boring. Writing was good. Sharp style. Insults fools and posers. Funny. Charming. The perfect example is the beginning of chapter...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Sep 18 11:17:01 -0700 2008 Thu Sep 18 11:17:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 09 00:10:35 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 11 09:24:12 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 15:55:54 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 15:57:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:05:57 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:13:47 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 12:49:33 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 10:11:11 -0700 2009 1 Richard Dawkins's wife and once an actress on Doctor Who, is well known among those who like science audiobooks for her contributions to the audio versions of her ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 19:14:42 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 10:31:12 -0700 2009 Patterns in the Mind, which covers a lot of the same ground, and i've also taken/audited courses on semantic/syntactic theory with ray, so why read pinker?

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The book addresses many interesting topics, but the style in which it is delivered did not always appeal to me. At so...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 10:55:20 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 12:08:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 14 21:49:10 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 21:55:03 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 25 07:46:30 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 08:20:41 -0700 2009
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