如何建构语言--基于使用的语言习得理论

    本书引用了认知科学、语言学和发展心理学中的大量实证研究案例，批评了生成语言学理论对儿童语言习得过程所作的不切合实际的解释，揭示了儿童学习语言的能力并非一种“语言本能”，而是和其他认知能力紧密联系的，并系统提出了自己基于使用的、以构式学习为中心的语言习得理论。

1  Usage-Based Linguistics
2  Origins of Language
  2.1  Phylogenetic Origins
  2.2  Ontogenetic Origins
  2.3  Children''s First Utterances
  2.4  Summary
3  Words
  3.1  Early Words and their Uses
  3.2  Processes of Word Learning
  3.3  Theories of Word Learning
  3.4  Summary
4  Early Syntactic Constructions
  4.1  The Nature of Constructions
  4.2  Early Constructional Islands
  4.3  Marking Syntactic Roles
  4.4  Summary
5  Abstract Syntactic Constructions
  5.1  Abstract Constructions
  5.2  Constructing Constructions
  5.3  Constraining Constructions
  5.4  Theories of Syntactic Development
  5.5  Summary
6  Nominal and Clausal Constructions
  6.1  Reference and Nominals
  6.2  Predication and Clauses
  6.3  Learning Morphology
  6.4  Summary
7  Complex Constructions and Discourse
  7.1  Complex Constructions
  7.2  Conversation and Narrative
  7.3  Summary
8  Biotogicat, Cultural, and Ontogenetic Processes
  8.1  Dual Inheritance
  8.2  Psycholinguistic Processes of Acquisition
  8.3  Psycholinguistic Processes of Production
  8.4  The Development of Linguistic Representations
  8.5  Summary
9  Toward a Psychology of Language Acquisition
References
Acknowledgments
Index