The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language – The Award-Winning Classic on Linguistics, Psychology, and Brain Science (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language – The Award-Winning Classic on Linguistics, Psychology, and Brain Science (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

by Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct explores the human capacity for language through the lenses of linguistics, psychology, and brain science. This award-winning classic offers a broad, accessible introduction to how the mind creates language and why this ability remains central to understanding human thought.

ISBN-13 9780061336461 ASIN 0061336467 Views 1133 Publisher Harper Perennial Modern Classics Year 2007 Edition Reprint Format Paperback Product Group Book Pages 576 Adult No Created February 14, 2026 Updated October 17, 2026
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The Language Instinct examines language as a defining human ability and explores how the mind creates and processes it.

Steven Pinker connects linguistics with psychology and brain science to present a wide-ranging account of language and cognition.

Written for a broad audience, this award-winning classic introduces central ideas about how language works and why it matters.

This Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition offers an accessible entry point into the study of language, the mind, and the brain.

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