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

Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 388 pages) : illustrations 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 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' Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-371) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Language acquisition. Cognition in children. Language Development LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics. PSYCHOLOGY -- Cognitive Psychology. Cognition in children Language acquisition Syntax Pragmatik Funktionalismus Linguistik Kindersprache Spracherwerb Taalverwerving. Cognitie. Kinderen. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674044395 0674044398

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