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The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism (Paperback)
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The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism (Paperback)
Series: Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series
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When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create
shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and
Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer
cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how
language acquisition, in particular multilingual language
acquisition, works. Each chapter presents an original study that
supports the view that language learning is initiated through local
and meaningful communication with others. Over an accumulated
history of such usage, people gradually create more abstract,
interactive schematic representations, or a mental grammar. This
process of acquiring language is the same for infants and adults
and across varied contexts, such as the family, the classroom, the
laboratory, a hospital, or a public encounter. Employing diverse
methodologies to study this process, the contributors here work
with target languages, including Cantonese, English, French, French
Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish, and
Swedish, and offer a much-needed exploration of this growing area
of linguistic research.
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