Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition - Hardcover

Tomasello, Michael

 
9780674010307: Constructing a Language: A Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674010302 ISBN 13: 9780674010307
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2003

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Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael 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 these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around them. Constructing a Language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.

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Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is the author of First Verbs and The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard), and the coauthor of Primate Cognition.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674010302
ISBN 13 
9780674010307
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448
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