Constructing a language : a usage-based theory of language acquisition / Michael Tomasello.

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Tomasello, Michael

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TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674044395
0674044398

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Constructing a language.DDC classification:

401/.93 22

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P118 .T558 2003eb

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CC 4800
CP 6500
ER 910
ER 920

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Contents:

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.

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Summary: The author presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition, based on evidence that children possess a linguistic ability interwoven with other cognitive abilities, rather than a self-contained 'language instinct'.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-371) and index.

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The author presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition, based on evidence that children possess a linguistic ability interwoven with other cognitive abilities, rather than a self-contained 'language instinct'.

English.

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