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{{Short description|1994 book by Steven Pinker}}
{{Infobox book| <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
| image = The Language Instinct.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = [[Steven Pinker]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| subject = [[Psycholinguistics]], [[evolutionary psychology]], [[evolutionary psychology of language]], [[linguistics]]
| published = 1994 ([[William Morrow and Company]])
| media_type = Print
| pages = 483
| isbn = 0-688-12141-1
| preceded_by      = 
| followed_by      = 
}}
'''''The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language''''' is a 1994 book by [[Steven Pinker]], written for a general audience. Pinker argues that [[human]]s are born with an innate capacity for [[language]]. He deals sympathetically with [[Noam Chomsky]]'s claim that all human language shows evidence of a [[universal grammar]], but dissents from Chomsky's skepticism that evolutionary theory can explain the human language instinct.