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The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker, Garikoitz Knörr de Santiago · 1994 · 513 pages
Long Now Manual for CivilizationBiolinguisticsLanguage and languagesPsycholinguistcsPhilosophyInstinct (Philosophy)
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In this exhilarating book, Steven Pinker asserts that language should not be seen as a cultural artefact that we learn in the way we learn to tell the time, but as a distinct part of the biological make-up of our brains.
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