The Language Instinct

Pinker, S. (1994). The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.

Type

Dataset

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1994

Link

https://search.worldcat.org/title/The-language-instinct-%3A-how-the-mind-creates-language/oclc/1057057327 not authoritative

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Mechanisms

• Inclusive Language Markedness Review
  • Its failure mode is chasing words without the norm

    This sourceArgues that changing words alone does not change underlying concepts or attitudes.

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