A dynamic view of usage and language acquisition

Ronald W. Langacker

doi:10.1515/COGL.2009.027

Published by De Gruyter Mouton August 14, 2009

A dynamic view of usage and language acquisition

Ronald W. Langacker

From the journal Cognitive Linguistics

https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.027

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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

Correspondence address: Ron Langacker, Linguistics Department, UCSD, 9500 Gilman Drive, #0108, La Jolla, CA 92093-0108, USA. E-mail: 〈rlangacker@ucsd.edu〉

Received: 2007-08-04

Revised: 2008-07-12

Published Online: 2009-08-14

Published in Print: 2009-August

A dynamic view of usage and language acquisition

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