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A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers

scientific article published on 02 May 2018

Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca's area: evidence from fMRI.

scientific article published on May 2006

Are your genes to blame?

scientific article published on 01 January 2003

Auditory streaming and the building of timbre

scientific article published on 01 March 1978

Beyond folk psychology

scientific article published in Nature

Beyond one model per phenomenon

scientific article published in March 2003

Clarifying the logical problem of language acquisition.

scientific article

Colloquium paper: the cognitive niche: coevolution of intelligence, sociality, and language

scientific article (publication date: 11 May 2010)

Combination and structure, not gradedness, is the issue

scientific article published in November 2002

Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using the proxy-phenotype method

scientific article

Common knowledge, coordination, and strategic mentalizing in human social life

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

Crazy love.

scientific article published in January 2008

Decline of violence: Taming the devil within us.

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Enlightenment Now

2018 book by Steven Pinker

George A. Miller (1920-2012).

scientific article

How Humans Gained an ‘Extra Life’

book review by Steven Pinker

How could a child use verb syntax to learn verb semantics?

article by Steven Pinker published April 1994 in Lingua

How the Mind Works

book written by Steven Pinker

How the Mind Works

book edition

How to think about the mind

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Judith Rich Harris (1938-2019)

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Kill or die: Moral judgment alters linguistic coding of causality

scientific article published on 2 February 2017

Language as an Adaptation by Natural Selection

article published in 2007

Lexical semantics and irregular inflection

scientific article (publication date: December 2010)

Links that speak: the global language network and its association with global fame

scientific article

Maimonides' ladder: States of mutual knowledge and the perception of charitability

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

Natural language and natural selection

scientific article

Political bias, explanatory depth, and narratives of progress

scientific article published on January 2015

Prosocial motives underlie scientific censorship by scientists: A perspective and research agenda

journal article from 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' published in 2023

Quantitative analysis of culture using millions of digitized books

scientific article

Rationales for indirect speech: the theory of the strategic speaker

scientific article published on 01 July 2010

Rationality

2021 nonfiction book by Steven Pinker

Recursive mentalizing and common knowledge in the bystander effect

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

Reply to Biersteker: When methods matter

scientific article

Sequential processing of lexical, grammatical, and phonological information within Broca's area

scientific article

So How Does the Mind Work?

article by Steven Pinker published February 2005 in Mind & Language

Speakers' sensitivity to rules of frozen word order

scientific article published in 1979

Steven Pinker

scientific article published in November 2004

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason

TED2012

Steven Pinker on the myth of violence

scholarly article published 2007

Steven Pinker: Human nature and the blank slate

TED2003

Steven Pinker: The surprising decline in violence

TED2007

Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal

TEDGlobal 2005

The Better Angels of Our Nature

2011 book by Steven Pinker

The Better Angels of Our Nature

2011 edition

The Blank Slate

2002 book by Steven Pinker

The Blank Slate

book edition

The Language Instinct

1994 written work by Steven Pinker

The Language Instinct

1994 edition

The Learnability and Acquisition of the Dative Alternation in English

scientific article (publication date: June 1989)

The Sense of Style

book by Steven Pinker

The Stuff of Thought

book by Steven Pinker

The Stuff of Thought

book edition

The biological basis of language: insight from developmental grammatical impairments

article

The commitment function of angry facial expressions

scientific article published on 4 June 2014

The faculty of language: what's special about it?

scientific article

The gender debate: science promises an honest investigation of the world

scientific article published in Nature

The logic of indirect speech

scholarly article

The mystery of consciousness.

scientific article published in January 2007

The nature of regularity and irregularity: evidence from Hebrew nominal inflection

scientific article published in September 2002

The nature of the language faculty and its implications for evolution of language (Reply to Fitch, Hauser, and Chomsky)

article by Ray Jackendoff & Steven Pinker published September 2005 in Cognition

The pandemic exposes human nature: 10 evolutionary insights

scientific article published in 2020

The past and future of the past tense

scientific article published on November 2002

The psychology of coordination and common knowledge

scientific article

Thought: book review has my ideas back to front

scientific article published in Nature

Time 100 scientists & thinkers. Paul Allen.

scientific article

Universality and diversity in human song

scientific article

Violence: Clarified

scientific article published on October 19, 2012

Why nature & nurture won't go away

article

Words and Rules

popular linguistics book by Steven Pinker

Words don't mean what they mean

scientific article published on 01 September 2007