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[Michael Tomasello]

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CONSTRUCTING A LANGUAGE:
A USAGE-BASED THEORY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

Harvard University Press

Michael Tomasello

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CHAPTER 1: USAGE-BASED LINGUISTICS

CHAPTER 2: ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
2.1. Phylogenetic Origins
2.2. Ontogenetic Origins
2.3. Children’s First Utterances
2.4. Summary

CHAPTER 3: WORDS
3.1. Early Words and their Uses
3.2. Processes of Word Learning
3.3. Theories of Word Learning
3.4. Summary

CHAPTER 4: EARLY SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
4.1. The Nature of Constructions
4.2. Early Constructional Islands
4.3. Marking Syntactic Roles
4.4. Summary

CHAPTER 5: ABSTRACT SYNTACTIC CONSTRUCTIONS
5.1. Abstract Constructions
5.2. Constructing Constructions
5.3. Constraining Constructions
5.4. Theories of Syntactic Development
5.5. Summary

CHAPTER 6: NOMINAL AND CLAUSAL CONSTRUCTIONS
6.1. Reference and Nominals
6.2. Predication and Clauses
6.3. Learning Morphology
6.4. Summary

CHAPTER 7: COMPLEX CONSTRUCTIONS AND DISCOURSE
7.1. Complex Constructions
7.2. Conversation and Narrative
7.3. Summary

CHAPTER 8: BIOLOGICAL, CULTURAL, AND ONTOGENETIC PROCESSES
8. 1. Dual Inheritance
8.2. Psycholinguistic Processes of Acquisition
8.3. Psycholinguistic Processes of Production
8.4. The Development of Linguistic Representation
8.5. Summary

CHAPTER 9: TOWARDS A PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION