The item-based nature of children's early syntactic development. Export

@article{tomasello:00, abstract = {Recent research using both naturalistic and experimental methods has found that the vast majority of young children's early language is organized around concrete, item-based linguistic schemas. From this beginning, children then construct more abstract and adult-like linguistic constructions, but only gradually and in piecemeal fashion. These new data present significant problems for nativist accounts of children's language development that use adult-like linguistic categories, structures and formal grammars as analytical tools. Instead, the best account of these data is provided by a usage-based model in which children imitatively learn concrete linguistic expressions from the language they hear around them, and then - using their general cognitive and social-cognitive skills - categorize, schematize and creatively combine these individually learned expressions and structures.}, address = {Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany.}, author = {Tomasello, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {2847120}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10740280}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=10740280}, issn = {1364-6613}, journal = {Trends in cognitive sciences}, keywords = {acquisition, development, language}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {156--163}, posted-at = {2008-05-30 12:35:04}, priority = {2}, title = {The item-based nature of children's early syntactic development.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10740280}, volume = {4}, year = {2000} }

TY - JOUR ID - tomasello:00 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2847120 N2 - Recent research using both naturalistic and experimental methods has found that the vast majority of young children's early language is organized around concrete, item-based linguistic schemas. From this beginning, children then construct more abstract and adult-like linguistic constructions, but only gradually and in piecemeal fashion. These new data present significant problems for nativist accounts of children's language development that use adult-like linguistic categories, structures and formal grammars as analytical tools. Instead, the best account of these data is provided by a usage-based model in which children imitatively learn concrete linguistic expressions from the language they hear around them, and then - using their general cognitive and social-cognitive skills - categorize, schematize and creatively combine these individually learned expressions and structures. IS - 4 JF - Trends in cognitive sciences SN - 1364-6613 AD - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Inselstrasse 22, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. EP - 163 TI - The item-based nature of children's early syntactic development. VL - 4 SP - 156 KW - acquisition KW - development KW - language AU - Tomasello, M PY - 2000/04// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10740280 ER -