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Constructing a language :

Tomasello, Michael.

Constructing a language : a usage-based theory of language acquisition / Michael Tomasello. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003. - viii, 388 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-371) and index.

1. A Puzzle and a Hypothesis *2. Biological and Cultural Inheritance *3. Joint Attention and Cultural Learning *4. Linguistic Communication and Symbolic Representation *5. Linguistic Constructions and Event Cognition *6. Discourse and Representational Redescription *7. Cultural Cognition * References * Index

0674010302

2002038840


Language acquisition.
Cognition in children.

P118 / .T558 2003

401.93 TON