He wrote a book about language.  He said thinking and talking are 2 different cognitive functions.

Here’s a clear quote from Steven Pinker that highlights the difference between thinking and speaking:

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects.”
— The Language Instinc

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Have you read Steven Pinker?

He wrote a book about language.  He said thinking and talking are 2 different cognitive functions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Language_Instinct

Here’s a clear quote from Steven Pinker that highlights the difference between thinking and speaking:

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects.”
— The Language Instinc

