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@article{Ghalebi2015TheUT, title={The Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition: A review of Major Issues}, author={Rezvan Ghalebi and Firooz Sadighi}, journal={Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research}, year={2015}, volume={2}, pages={190-195}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:57480893}}
  • R. Ghalebi, F. Sadighi
  • Published 6 August 2015
  • Linguistics
  • Journal of Applied Linguistics and Language Research

The present study is a review of the usage based theory of language acquisition introduced by Tomasello (2003) and finds that this theory also believes in some universality of linguistic structures similar to the concept of universal grammar in nativism but, in a different way.

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