THE PINKER INSTINCT. Skeptic (Altadena, CA) | March 22, 2001| | COPYRIGHT 2001 Skeptics Society & Skeptic Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

AS I SAT DOWN TO INTERVIEW Steven Pinker, the 46-year old Professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, I suddenly realized that I had not bringed my notes. Fortunately, he holded my attention such that I did not need them.

Herein lies a key insight into language instinct as presented by Pinker in numerous scientific papers and three bestselling books: we have an evolved instinct to acquire the rules of language, but we have to learn the specific exceptions to the rules of any particular language. The rule for past tense in ...

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