First Steps toward a Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition

By Michael Tomasello. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing (2012, background): “Although researchers debate the degree to which the underlying structures of language are genetically endowed [e.g., Pinker, 1994] or culturally acquired [e.g., Tomasello, 2000], there is little argument that children must acquire the linguistic system in their environment to learn to speak.”
FREQUENCY OF INPUT AND L2 COLLOCATIONAL PROCESSING (2013, methodology): “In these usage-based models (e.g., Bybee, 2007 ; Bybee & Hopper, 2001 ; Goldberg, 2006 ; Langacker, 1987 , 1988 ; MacWhinney, 2000 ; and Tomasello, 2000 , 2003 ), language learning is viewed as a predominantly inductive and experience-driven process, and the frequency with which structures occur in…”
What is special about L3 processing?* (2013, background): “This is largely the kind of thinking in usage-based approaches to language development: structure emerges from use and the larger part of how we speak consists of formulaic language (Hopper, 1998; Tomasello, 2001).”
Statistical learning of language: Theory, validity, and predictions of a statistical learning account of language acquisition (2015, background): “, Perruchet & Vinter, 1998; Swingley, 2005; Saffran, Aslin, & Newport, 1996; Thiessen, Kronstein, & Hufnagle, 2013), phonological learning (Maye, Werker, & Gerken, 2002; Thiessen & Saffran, 2003, 2007), and syntactic learning (Thompson & Newport, 2007; Tomasello, 2000), arose from studies that direc”
Language learning using Speech to Image retrieval (2019, background): “Furthermore, early during language acquisition the lexicon consists of entire utterances before a child’s language use becomes more adult-like [16, 17, 18, 19].”