Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition
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Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition*
It was long considered to be impossible to learn grammar based on linguistic experience alone. In the past decade, however, advances in usage-based linguistic theory, computational linguistics, and developmental psychology changed the view on this matter. So-called usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition state that language can be learned from language use itself, by mean...
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عنوان ژورنال: Linguistics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0024-3949,1613-396X
DOI: 10.1515/ling.2009.014