Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition

By Julian M. Pine. 2005

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Language to Action: Towards Interactive Task Learning with Physical Agents (2018, unknown): “As social learning plays a pivotal role in child language acquisition [Tomasello, 2003], we developed an interactive learning framework where the agent can incrementally acquire grounded verb semantics by following the human teacher’s instructions step by step.”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “Theories of social learning have traditionally emphasized the role of social factors in language acquisition (Bruner, 1983; Vygotsky, 1962; Tomasello, 2003a, 2003b).”
Lexical acquisition over time in minority first language children learning English as a second language (2008, background): “Among word classes, research on L1 acquisition has indicated that meanings of verbs may be more complex to grasp than meanings of nouns early on because nouns more often than verbs have stable and concrete referents, which makes it easier to map phonological form to meaning (Gleitman, Cassidy, Napa,”
Toward physics of the mind: Concepts, emotions, consciousness, and symbols (2006, background): “Among such principles is evolution of abstract notions from vague and fuzzy toward specific and concrete (Elman [85, p. 14]; Olguin and Tomasello [89]; Tomasello and Olguin [90]).”
Young Bilingual Children's Heightened Sensitivity to Referential Cues (2011, background): “Monolingual and bilingual children alike must learn to monitor and integrate these sources of information to communicate successfully and avoid breakdowns in communication (e.g., Baldwin, 1995; Hollich, Hirsh-Pasek, & Golinkoff, 2000; Tomasello, 2003).”
Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009, background): “…for copying the unnecessary ‘style’ of an instrumental action (Tomasello & Carpenter 2005; see also Whiten et al. 2009; Nielsen in press), and in acquiring linguistic conventions, children are not just driven by communicative efficacy but also by the desire to do it like others do (Tomasello 2003).”
Incidental verbatim memory for language (2010, background): “These may be categorized into more abstract constructional schemas (cf. e.g. Bybee 1985; Goldberg 2006; Langacker 1988; Tomasello 2003).”
Not just ‘small potatoes’: Knowledge of the idiomatic meanings of collocations (2017, background): “These results are in contrast to the many studies that show a robust effect of frequency on the acquisition of individual vocabulary items (e.g. Ellis, 2002; Tomasello, 2003).”
Structural Priming as Implicit Learning in Language Acquisition: The Persistence of Lexical and Structural Priming in 4-Year-Olds (2006, background): “These findings suggest that, unlike adults, young children’s linguistic constructions are not abstract in the sense that they are independent of the particular words and morphemes involved, but rather particular linguistic content is almost always a part of the representation of the construction—at ”
Formulaic language (2008, unknown): “2003 Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition.”
The Present of the English Future: Grammatical Variation and Collocations in Discourse (2009, background): “In usage-based grammar, there is no discrete division between fixed and productive expressions (cf. Bybee 2006, Goldberg 2006, Tomasello 2003).”
Grounded PCFG Induction with Images (2020, background): “However, as computational-level models of human syntax acquisition, they lack semantic, pragmatic and environmental information which human learners seem to use (Gleitman, 1990; Pinker and MacWhin-ney, 1987; Tomasello, 2003).”