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Název:		Constructing a language : a usage-based theory of language acquisition
Autor:		Michael Tomasello
Rok vydání:		2003
Identifikátory:		9780674017641 bod010-mub01000882110

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Anotace:	In 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. </p><p> 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. </p><p> All 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. </p><p> For all its empirical weaknesses, Chomskian generative grammar has ruled the linguistic world for forty years. <i>Constructing a Language</i> offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.
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