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The Language Instinct

Steven Pinker

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The Language Instinct Steven Pinker "What I liked about The Language Instinct was it sort of picked up where my previous training had left off. I studied psycho-linguistics at the University of Illinois and I met Noam Chomsky, who's now better known as a peace activist. But he was the inventor of modern linguistics. He really picks up on Chomsky's ideas. Chomsky was sort of a pencil-and-paper linguist; he would look at sentences and analyze their deep structure, and he came to the conclusion all languages have certain common features, that all human languages are of a particular type which he calls generative transformational - and I won't try to define that. I think a lot of computer-oriented people would be interested in it. For one thing, it talks a little bit about computer attempts to assimilate speech. I would give The Language Instinct five stars, I think, because it's the only book that I've read that really picks up where my psycho-linguistic training left off."