Constructing a Language A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition

Name: Constructing a Language A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition
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ISBN: 9780674017641

ISBN-10: 0674017641

ISBN-13: 9780674017641

Edition: 2003

Authors: Michael Tomasello

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In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of a language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols; children pick up…

Book details

List price: $34.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 5.94" wide x 10.00" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.144

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.




Usage-Based Linguistics



Origins of Language



Phylogenetic Origins



Ontogenetic Origins



Children's First Utterances



Summary



Words



Early Words and their Uses



Processes of Word Learning



Theories of Word Learning



Summary



Early Syntactic Constructions



The Nature of Constructions



Early Constructional Islands



Marking Syntactic Roles



Summary



Abstract Syntactic Constructions



Abstract Constructions



Constructing Constructions



Constraining Constructions



Theories of Syntactic Development



Summary



Nominal and Clausal Constructions



Reference and Nominals



Predication and Clauses



Learning Morphology



Summary



Complex Constructions and Discourse



Complex Constructions



Conversation and Narrative



Summary



Biological, Cultural, and Ontogenetic Processes



Dual Inheritance



Psycholinguistic Processes of Acquisition



Psycholinguistic Processes of Production



The Development of Linguistic Representations



Summary



Toward a Psychology of Language Acquisition


References


Acknowledgements


Index