
Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author
Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott
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How Did You Decide That You Wanted to Write About Language?
How did you decide to spend so much of your time writing these books? And, like, how did you find your sort of voice and your approach to writing? I always was receptive to feedback from the world, even before i started to write books for a wide audience. When i wad have been attack seor in a bar and some one say, we know what he do for living. Id say, id study language and how children acquire it. And theyd al way say, oh, wild. That's really interesting. So after having written a book that tried to tie together all the different aspects of language as a biological adaptation, the natural question was, what or the other
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