2015
DOI: 10.5842/48-0-676
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The Case for an Emergentist Approach

Abstract: This paper sets out an argument in favour of emergentism as an alternative theoretical paradigm to nativism, arguing that it offers a coherent, evidence-based account of language structure, language acquisition, language evolution, and language change. A number of key tenets of the nativist approach are summarised first, including the nature of the presumed complexity of language, the poverty of the input argument against the learnability of language, the assumption of parsimony, the view of language as an inn… Show more

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“…Both usual and unusual words can be used to fill the slots in the construction (Bybee, 2006;van Rooy & Kruger, 2015). Even fixed constructions such as fixed idioms, proverbs and sayings can be manipulated and disrupted by language users (e.g.…”
Section: Language Learning As Learning Constructions and Creativity A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Both usual and unusual words can be used to fill the slots in the construction (Bybee, 2006;van Rooy & Kruger, 2015). Even fixed constructions such as fixed idioms, proverbs and sayings can be manipulated and disrupted by language users (e.g.…”
Section: Language Learning As Learning Constructions and Creativity A...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…gebruik om hierdie aangeleerde uitdrukkings op 'n kreatiewe wyse te kombineer doi.10.17159/2224-7912/2017/v57n4a10 6 Die gebruiksgebaseerde teorieë tot taal word omvattend in onder meer Behrens (2009), Bybee (2006, Goldberg (1995), Tomasello (2000;2001) en Van Rooy en Kruger (2015) …”
Section: 'N Gebruiksgebaseerde Benadering Tot Eerstetaalverwerwingunclassified