The release date for the English version of 'The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language' by
Steven Pinker is Nov 2000. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The world's foremost authority on language and the mind writes this classic book on the evolution of human language.
The world's foremost authority on language and the mind explains in this timeless masterpiece anything you've always wanted to know about language, including how it functions, how kids pick it up, how it changes, how the brain processes it, and how it developed. Steven Pinker skillfully combines instances of wordplay and comedy with our extensive understanding of language to tell a gripping tale: language is an innate human ability that has been hardwired into our brains by evolution.The American Psychological Association's William James Book Prize and the Linguistics Society of America's Public Interest Award went to The Language Instinct. An update on developments in language research since the first publication of The Language Instinct is included in this version.