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# Language Instinct, The MP3 CD – Unabridged, April 22, 2014

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Language for Everyone
  

*by G***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2013*

Steven Pinker is a professor at Harvard College as well as a professor in evolutionary psychology and computational theory of mind at Harvard University. Even though Pinker is very specific and technical in his experimental work, Pinker writes his books for the general audience to read. Steven Pinker used experimental subjects in the fields of mental imagery, shape recognition, as well as visual attention. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is a book I would recommend to an interested audience because the unique methods Pinker takes advantage of such as visual sentences, vocabulary lists, and example words help get across information to his readers in unique ways. The central idea that The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language really highlights is that humans are born with an instinct for language. The definition of innate is inborn or originating in the mind. The book really emphasizes that the instinct of language is innate. The key point that Steven Pinker makes about language being instinct is that language is not new, but it is there and ready to be learned by humans when they are born. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language covers many broad topics such as evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and behavioral genetics. The book is written in a very interesting style. Not only were the above topics discussed and analyzed by Pinker with words, Pinker also used visuals to help convey his important points about the topics. The visuals that Pinker used include sentence structure equations, which included multiple words for different scenarios. Another visual used was a tree diagram to help form the structure of the sentence. The interesting part of the style was that it was universal for all humans because it is innate, and humans learn language the in the same methods. Through the many examples Pinker gives to help illustrate to the audience how language is innate, he also makes a claim that language is not only innate, but language is the result of natural selection and actually evolved over time. Steven Pinker highlights throughout the novel that language is really an adaptation that benefits humans in the ways of communication. The concepts in The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language relate to the classroom in various ways, but they most important way they link to class is the concepts of learning and innate traits. In class we discussed short-term learning, long-term learning, as well as traits being innate or instinctual. In class we have also learned about natural selection and adaptations. In The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language, language is considered an adaptation in which this adaptation was achieved through natural selection. If language really does act as an adaptation for humans, then the three things necessary for natural selection that include groups of organisms with variation of traits, traits must be heritable, traits must give survival and or reproductive advantages really do function universally for all things undergoing natural selection. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is a book meant for all audiences with self-interest in language as a topic. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language is not a very advanced book in neuroscience or in language at all. No prior background information really needs to be known for a reader to understand this book. Steven Pinker does a great job at providing readers with all the background information they may need, and then elaborates on it. In the beginning of the book, Pinker looks to find a mutual ground about language by providing common examples about misunderstood topics such as questioning the reader to understand how language is so overlooked, and if the reader even realizes how they are able to understand what he is writing. Steven Pinker does a good job at filtering almost all technical parts of the book in a way for a very broad audience to understand it. When Pinker begins to discuss prefixes and suffixes, he analyzes why humans use certain suffixes or prefixes when either could work. To help make Pinker's audience understand the topic of suffixes, Pinker uses a broken down tree diagram to help depict why a certain suffix is used compared to another. With this tree diagram serving as a visual aid, Pinker really gets his point across of why a certain suffix is used because the visual aid breaks down word meanings and even how to say it with the use of your tongue. The science behind Steven Pinker's claims seem very consistent with his examples that make readers pronounce words with directions, analyze simplified tree diagrams, as well as analyzing sentences with varied verbs in different tenses. The science is accurate and valid because Pinker has done his own research as well as referencing other renowned scientists to help support his general premises. The arguments Pinker makes about how language is very instinctual, and can be picked up very easily especially at a young age is very well constructed through sort of a simple to complex scale. Pinker states his general premises to be that language is innate and has been evolved over many years. Steven Pinker stays with his general premises, and offers an abundance of supporting claims and evidence. The presentation of neuroscience in this book is very simple, and I had no problem understanding any aspect of it because Pinker does a great job at simplifying considerably advanced ideas about language that includes ancestral genes and evolutionary psychology. I would recommend anyone with self-interest in the topic of language to buy and read this book because it will broaden your perspective on one of the most overlooked innate tools that allow for communication among humans.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The Language Instinct: How the Mind CreatesLanguage by Steven Pinker
  

*by D***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2011*

The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker, March 23, 2011THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT: HOW THE MIND CREATES LANGUAGE by Prof. Pinker is a great book on the biology/evolution of human language. It has helped me understand the rationale for Chomsky's GENERATIVE GRAMMAR, esp., X-bar theory of syntax. I've learned from this book what I failed to grasp as a student of Applied Linguistics (which I studied at Indiana University.)It reads like a story book. Prof. Pinker has an amazing power to explain, with examples, analogies and metaphors drawn from various fields. I found that every paragraph in the chapters is full of revealing research results and has so much new to tell the curious reader.I canft help quote some of the many passages in the book took me right to the core of GENERATIVE SYNTAX/X-bar theory:(1) "... language is not just any cultural invention but the product of a special human instinct." (p. 14)(2) "When it comes to linguistic form, Plato walks the Macedonian swineherd, Confucius with the head-hunting savage of ASSAM [north-east India]."(3) "... language acquisition cannot be explained as a kind of IMITATION."(4) "Many biologists have capitalized on the close parallel between the principles of GRAMMATICAL combination and the principles of GENETIC combination. In the technical language of genetics, sequences of DNA are said to contain "letters" and "punctuation;" may be "palindromic," "meaningless," or "synonymous;" are "transcribed" and "translated;" and even stored in "libraries."  The immunologist Niels Jerne entitled his Nobel Prize address "The Generative Grammar of the Immune System." (p. 76)(5) "Chomsky suggests that the unordered SUPER-RULES (principles) are universal and innate, and when children learn a particular language, they do not have to learn a long list of rules, because they were born knowing the super-rules. All they have to learn is whether their particular language has the PARAMETER value head-first, as in English, or head last, as in Japanese." (p. 104)(6) "Now the story begins to get more interesting. You must have noticed that NOUN PHRASES and VERB PHRASES have a lot in common: (1) head..., (2) role-players..., (3) modifiers..., and (4) a subject... The orderings inside a Noun Phrase and inside a Verb Phrase are the same... It seems as if there is a standard design to the two phrases." (p. 102)(7) "Phrase structure, then, is one solution to the engineering problem of taking an interconnected web of thoughts in the mind and encoding them as a string of words that must be uttered, one at a time, by the mouth." (p. 94)(8) "It allows one component (a phrase) to SNAP into any of the several positions inside other components (larger phrases). Once a phrase is defined by a rule and is given its connector symbol, it never has to be defined again; the phrase can be PLUGGED in anywhere there is a corresponding socket." (p. 92)(9) In Chapter 4 (How Language Works), on page 103, Prof. Pinker provides the ANATOMY OF AN X PHRASE. [Quote begins]"With this common design, there is no need to write out a long list of RULES TO CAPTURE WHAT IS INSIDE A SPEAKERfS HEAD. There may be just ONE PAIR OF SUPER-RULES for the entire language, where the distinction among NOUNS, VERBS, PREPOSITIONS, and ADJECTIVES, are collapsed and all four are specified with a variable like "X." Since a phrase just inherits the properties of its head..., it's redundant to call a phrase headed by a noun a "noun phrase" -- we could just call it an "X phrase," since the nounhood of the head noun, like the manhood of the head noun and all other information in the head noun, percolates up to characterize the whole phrase. Here is what the SUPER-RULES look like....:XP ¨ (SPEC) X [x-bar] YP* [sorry, couldnft find the x-bar symbol]["A phrase consists of an optional subject, followed by an X-bar, followed by any number of modifiers."]X [x-bar] ¨ X ZP*["An X-bar consists of a head word, followed by any number of role-players."]Just plug in NOUN, VERB, ADJECTIVE, or PREPOSITION, for X, Y, and Z, and you have the actual phrase structure rules that spell the phrases. This streamlined version of phrase structure is called "the X-bar theory."This general BLUEPRINT for phrases extends even farther, to other languages..." [end of quote, p. 103]Some other quotes on universality of language and how children acquire it are notable:(10) "... the ability of children to generalize to an infinite number of potential sentences depends on their analyzing parental speech using a fixed set of mental categories." (p. 434)(11) "For language acquisition, what is the innate SIMILARITY SPACE that allows children to generalize from sentences in the parents' speech to the "similar" sentences that define the rest of English.(p. 433)(12) "The banter among New Guinean highlanders in the film of their first contact with rest of the world, the motions of a sign language interpreter, the prattle of little girls in a Tokyo playground -- I imagine seeing through the rhythms to the structures underneath,and sense that we all have the same minds." (p. 448)M. Solaiman Ali, Ph.D.Technical Report Writing InstructorSchool of EngineeringKing Abdulaziz University, JeddahSaudi Arabia

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    An important and very good book on the language.
  

*by L***T on Reviewed in Spain on August 5, 2024*

An important and very good book on the language. The book is thirty years old (!) but you can't tell.Unfortunately, the antiquarian bookshop didn't send me the hardcover edition (like new) that I ordered, but a very worn paperback.

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