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A dynamic view of usage and language acquisition
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Ronald W. Langacker
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August 14, 2009
Abstract
A general framework is sketched for thinking about problems of usage and acquisition from a cognitive linguistic perspective. It is a dynamic, usage-based approach emphasizing the temporal dimension of language structure as an aspect of cognitive processing. A variety of topics are discussed involving the abstraction of linguistic units, their mental representation, and their activation in usage events.
Keywords:: acquisition; analyzability; categorization; dynamicity; exemplar theory; linguistic unit; processing; schema; type and token frequency; usage-based approach
Received: 2007-08-04
Revised: 2008-07-12
Published Online: 2009-08-14
Published in Print: 2009-August
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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Keywords for this article
acquisition;
analyzability;
categorization;
dynamicity;
exemplar theory;
linguistic unit;
processing;
schema;
type and token frequency;
usage-based approach
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