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Michael Tomasello (born 18 January 1950 in Bartow, Florida) is a cognitive psychologist and the co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. Bartow is a city located in the U.S. State of Florida in Central Florida east of the Tampa Bay area. ...
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Tomasello works with the psycholinguistics of children's language and subscribes to the cognitive linguistics school of psychology. He is a critic of Noam Chomsky's generative grammar, rejecting the idea that any linguistic structure is universal (or based on innate knowledge) and instead proposing a usage-based theory (sometimes called the social-pragmatic approach to language acquisition) in which children learn linguistic structures through social-communicative and cognitive processes, such as joint attention. Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, and understand language. ...
In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the currently dominant school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in evolutionarily-developed and speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human mind. ...
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Tomasello's recent work has focused on the development of social cognition in children, such as the ability to imitate and act jointly with others. He and his colleagues have also compared human social reasoning with that of apes.
He was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris in May 2006. The Jean Nicod Prize is awarded annually in Paris to a leading philosopher of mind or philosophically oriented cognitive scientist. ...
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Bibliography
- Tomasello, M (1999) The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00582-1.
- Tomasello, M (2003) Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01764-1
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