Constructing a language : a usage-based theory of language acquisition
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 children’s linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.
Print Book, English, 2005
1st Harvard University Press paperback ed View all formats and editions
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2005
viii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780674017641, 9780674010307, 0674017641, 0674010302
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Usage-based linguistics
Origins of language
Words
Early syntactic constructions
Abstract syntactic constructions
Nominal and clausal constructions
Complex constructions and discourse
Biological, cultural, and ontogenetic processes
Toward a psychology of language acquisition
Originally published: 2003