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The Language Game the rulesForget the language instinctthis is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanitys most astonishing capacityand one that remains poorly understood. In The Language Game, cognitive scientists Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater show us where generations of scientists seeking the rules of language got it wrong. Language isnt about hardwired grammars but about near total freedom, something like a game of charades, with the

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