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TOMASELLO. First Steps Toward A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition. 2000. by BrunaThalenberg is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses a usage-based model of language acquisition and argues that the primary unit of child language is the utterance, which expresses communicative intentions. It claims that early utterances are item-based schemas and that abstraction results from generalizing across variations. Children also create novel utterances by modifying schemas based on usage events.
- Author
- BrunaThalenberg
- Language
- EN