Julia, here is his claim to fame
Pinker is most famous for his work — popularized in The Language Instinct (1994) — on how children acquire language, and for his popularization of Noam Chomsky's work on language as an innate faculty of mind. Pinker has suggested an evolutionary mental module for language, although this idea remains controversial. In The Language Instinct,Pinker argues that humans are born with an innate capacity forlanguage. In addition, he deals sympathetically with the claim that allhuman language shows evidence of a universal grammar. AdditionallyPinker argues that many other human mental faculties are adaptive (and is an ally of Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins in many evolutionary disputes).
popularization of Choamsky is "admirable" (ch) , but can you describe in your own words the breakthrough he was able to establish?? was he a pioneer of any sort?