false 48310033 1025059 5755 0060958332 9780060958336 150 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543218m/5755.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165543218s/5755.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5755.The_Language_Instinct_How_the_Mind_Creates_Language 4.09 1324 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.  The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America.

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Now that I have finished it (about two weeks ago) I can finally write something more about it.

To begin with, I must confess I have had a few troubles finish...more...]]>