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Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition Michael Tomasello
Publisher: Harvard University Press

He is the author of The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Michael Tomasello - Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory. Evolution had less effect on linguistics than on other social sciences, yet history shows that secondary effects were felt. Theories of the origin of language are first discussed from a linguistic point of view in secular writing. Skinner, who dominated language learning in mid-century. The notion of linguistically oriented innate predispositions fits perfectly with generative theories of language: children were presumed to use innate abilities to generate a potentially infinite number of utterances. Aspects of meaning Nativist studies of child language acquisition were free to construct hypothetical grammars (that is, descriptions of linguistic systems) of child language, although such grammars were still solidly based on empirical data. A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language; Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar (Bradford Books. The Cognitive Linguistics Enterprise: An Overview. No true link has ever been However, the Lockean assumption of a “clean slate” before learning went to extremes with behaviourists like B.F. No official document on MLE defines language bridging, although a few studies exist which try to explain the concept (see the following section Language Bridging: A Theoretical Exploration). Having made this point, Tomasello goes on to discuss how his proposed theory of child language acquisition is construction-based, rather than word (or morpheme) based – acquisition is a process of mastering 'utterances' (in his terminology) from a communicative point of view, not a process of establishing the units of a formal grammar: “This means that we Tomasello, M (2003), Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.