@Article{Tomasello2000a,
  author   = {Tomasello, Michael},
  journal  = {Trends Cogn Sci},
  title    = {The item-based nature of children's early syntactic development.},
  year     = {2000},
  number   = {4},
  pages    = {156-163},
  volume   = {4},
  abstract = {Recent research using both naturalistic and experimental methods has
	found that the vast majority of young children's early language is
	organized around concrete, item-based linguistic schemas. From this
	beginning, children then construct more abstract and adult-like linguistic
	constructions, but only gradually and in piecemeal fashion. These
	new data present significant problems for nativist accounts of children's
	language development that use adult-like linguistic categories, structures
	and formal grammars as analytical tools. Instead, the best account
	of these data is provided by a usage-based model in which children
	imitatively learn concrete linguistic expressions from the language
	they hear around them, and then - using their general cognitive and
	social-cognitive skills - categorize, schematize and creatively combine
	these individually learned expressions and structures.},
  keywords = {Adult, Child Development, Child, Preschool, Cognition, Female, Human, Infant, Language Development, Linguistics, Male, 10740280},
}

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