Contributor´s name + email (partner/associate partner)
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LS PELIKAN schacherlova@skolapelican.com |
Language/s
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English |
Author
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Pinker, S. |
Title
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The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind |
Date
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1994 |
Full reference
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Pinker, S. (1994). The Language Instinct: The New Science of Language and Mind. London, The Penguin Press. |
Summary
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In his landmark book Stephen Pinker shows how language is part of our genetic inheritance rather than a cultural creation. From the DNA that builds our brains to the pontification of newspaper columnists, Pinker destroys the myths about language - that children learn to talk by copying their parents, that grammatical standards are in decline, that English defies logic - revealing the innate human instinct to communicate that we are all born with. |
Key words
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language, DNA, generic inheritance |
Other interesting information (Note.1)
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Interest for the project (Note.2)
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4 |
Full document uploaded in Crocodoc (Note.3)
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2. Score from 1 to 5, (1 low and 5 high)
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