This book makes easier reading than “The Stuff of Thought”, but it’s also less informative. There are many speculations, but not enough evidence. Pinker doesn’t demonstrate exactly “how the mind creates language”, which is what the subtitle suggests and what I’m mainly interested in, but instead he expounds the theory of “Universal Grammar”, which was initially developed by Noam Chomsky. In a nutshell, the argument is that there are so […]
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