Steven pinker born to talk

Almost three decades have passed since Steven Pinker published The Language Instinct. In that book, Pinker systematically addressed the evidence against the idea, once popularized by B.F. Skinner, that language, like playing Mozart on the piano, had to be learned, step by step, via parental administration of rewards for progressive approximations (no, it's "ball," not "bah").

Pinker made a strong case that, when it comes to speaking, we are born little Mozarts, with brains prepared to effortlessly absorb whatever language our parents happen to speak, and to naturally re-arrange those words into understandable, syntactically complex, and even artistically clever new sentences.

In another well-written, easily understandable, and scientifically rigorous book, Enlightenment Now, Pinker argued that, looked at over the long span of history, human life is getting better in almost every way (see “Ten Ways the World Is Getting Better”).

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