The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct... as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations.'
— Independent

A marvellously readable book that:

• Illuminates every facet of human language:
  • Its biological origin
  • Its uniqueness to humanity
  • Its acquisition by children
  • Its grammatical structure
  • The production and perception of speech
  • The pathology of language disorders
  • The unstoppable evolution of languages and dialects

— Nature