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Usage-Based Language: Investigating the Latent Structures That Underpin Acquisition
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Ellis, Nick C.; O'Donnell, Matthew Brook; Romer, Ute – Language Learning, 2013
Each of us as language learners had different language experiences, yet somehow we have converged upon broadly the same language system. From diverse, often noisy samples, we have attained similar linguistic competence. How so? What mechanisms channel language acquisition? Could our linguistic commonalities possibly have converged from our shared…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Semantics, Language Usage