In this lecture, we explore how children learn languages. We adopt a Usage-based Construction Grammar perspective and see how children move from holophrases ('one-word utterances') over item-based constructions to abstract schematic constructions.
Lecture notes available at Academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/44762370/Construction_Grammar_Week_6_Language_acquisition
Further reading:
Hoffmann, Thomas. 2022. Construction Grammar: The Structure of English. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/construction-grammar/D0577C9957038E384A2A1F04E6A73B7E#overview
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In this lecture, we explore how children learn languages. We adopt a Usage-based Construction Grammar perspective and see how children move from holophrases ('one-word utterances') over item-based constructions to abstract schematic constructions.
Lecture notes available at Academia.edu:
https://www.academia.edu/44762370/Construction_Grammar_Week_6_Language_acquisition
Further reading:
Hoffmann, Thomas. 2022. Construction Grammar: The Structure of English. (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
https://www.cambridge.org/highereducation/books/construction-grammar/D0577C9957038E384A2A1F04E6A73B7E#overview
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