The Language Instinct : How the Mind Creats Language /
Steven Pinker.
- New York : Harper Perennial, 1995.
- 494 p.
Includes Notes, References, Glossary and Index.
The author explains how language works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, how it evolved. Language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution like web spinning in spiders or sonar bats.