{"product_id":"constructing-a-language-a-usage-based-theory-of-language-acquisition-paperback","title":"Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Tomasello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTomasello 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll theories of language acquisition assume these fundamental skills of intention-reading and pattern-finding. Some formal linguistic theories posit a second set of acquisition processes to connect somehow with an innate universal grammar. But these extra processes, Tomasello argues, are completely unnecessary--important to save a theory but not to explain the phenomenon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor all its empirical weaknesses, Chomskian generative grammar has ruled the linguistic world for forty years. \u003ci\u003eConstructing a Language\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 408\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47327477563641,"sku":"9780674017641","price":62.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/3QbxZyKosn9780674017641.webp?v=1769581056","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/constructing-a-language-a-usage-based-theory-of-language-acquisition-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}