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基本説明
今もっとも注目される言語習得論。マックスプランク進化人類学研究所教授が、言語発達の実証的な研究成果をまとめた主著。幼児の言語習得は生得的な文法を一挙に獲得するというより、認知的な概念化と言語的な抽象化を通して徐々に緩いユニットを構成していくダイナミックな過程(文法判断は後から)であることを説得力豊かに示す。3/26東大駒場にて講演。
Tomasello offers an extended and detailed exposition of his 'usage-based' theory of language acquisition, which be contrasts to nativist or 'universal grammar' theories such as those of Noam Chomsky and of Steven Pinker.
Full Description
Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Michael Tomasello demonstrates that we don't need a self-contained "language instinct" to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities. Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention. Grammar emerges as the speakers of a language create linguistic constructions out of recurring sequences of symbols, children pick up these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around them. Constructing a Language offers a compellingly argued, psychologically sound new vision for the study of language acquisition.