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Direct linkAmbridge, Ben – First Language, 2020
In this response to commentators, I agree with those who suggested that the distinction between exemplar- and abstraction-based accounts is something of a false dichotomy and therefore move to an abstractions-made-of-exemplars account under which (a) we store all the exemplars that we hear (subject to attention, decay, interference, etc.) but (b)…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Language Research
