Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker

The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign languages, and why computers cannot learn human language. 75,000 first printing.

The Language Instinct

An examination of the human ability to use language by an MIT professor traces the history and evolution of the English language, the theories of Noam Chomsky, the way children learn to use language, and much more.

Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker

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