From Robert Lane Greene’s “Five Books” interview on The Browser: On to Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct, How the Mind Creates Language, which is incredibly famous. Is the virtue of this book that ...

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, by Steven Pinker (HarperPerennial, $14). On Side 2 of Mel Brooks’ and Carl Reiner’s “The 2001-Year-Old Man,” Brooks appears as a two-hour-old baby ...

"Use of gestures reflects language instinct in young children." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 / 140605083453.htm (accessed December 8, 2025).

Psychologist and linguist Stephen Pinker argues convincingly in this book that almost all of us possess what he calls the language instinct, an innate capacity for language components such as grammar, ...

People instinctively organise a new language according to a logical hierarchy, not simply by learning which words go together, as computer translation programs do. The finding may add further support ...

In my recent book, The Language Myth, I investigate one of the dominant themes that has preoccupied the study of language for the last 50 years or so: whether the rudiments of the human capacity for ...