Constructing ‘ basic ’ verbal constructions : a longitudinal study of the blossoming of constructions with six frequent
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In this paper we adopt a usage-based perspective on the process of first language acquisition. Following Tomasello (2003), we assume that children initially learn concrete chunks of language, linguistic gestalts that can take different sizes and shapes, in dialogue. They then generalize across those various elements in order to assemble more abstract constructions (Fillmore 1988, Goldberg 1995) in the process of creating new utterances. These linguistic constructions are units of language that contain multiple elements used together for a coherent communicative function. Language acquisition is a fruitful field in which to apply construction grammar. As Ingram (1998) reminds us in the title of his comment on Tomasello's (1998) review of Goldberg's (1995) book: " Constructions have been in child language all the time. " The 19 th century observers of child language had already expressed their intuitions about gestalt language in their diaries about their own children
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