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Direct linkLieven, Elena; Ferry, Alissa; Theakston, Anna; Twomey, Katherine E. – First Language, 2020
During language acquisition children generalise at multiple layers of granularity. Ambridge argues that abstraction-based accounts suffer from lumping (over-general abstractions) or splitting (over-precise abstractions). Ambridge argues that the only way to overcome this conundrum is in a purely exemplar/analogy-based system in which…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Children, Generalization, Abstract Reasoning
