The Language Instinct
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What’s it about?
Language isn't taught—it's wired into our brains. Steven Pinker reveals the biological instinct that lets children create grammar and makes every human a natural-born speaker.
You’ll learn
- Language is a biological instinct, not a learned skill
- Children create grammar, not just imitate speech
- Universal grammar underlies all human languages
- Thought exists independently of language