The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
24. A Usage-based Approach to Child Language Acquisition
The Cognitive Linguistics Reader - Vyvyan Evans
Michael Tomasello
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Description
In this essay, the author synthesises some of his research on child language acquisition, focusing on the acquisition of syntactic categories and argues from a perspective that is at odds with the one (rule-based) that has long been dominant in research on language acquisition. His usage-based perspective shows its potential as a challenge to cognitivist treatments of language and cognition,