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ERIC Number: EJ1270160
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0142-7237
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Like Dishwashing Detergents, All Analogies Are Not the Same: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)
Koring, Loes; Giblin, Iain; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen
First Language, v40 n5-6 p596-599 Oct-Dec 2020
This response argues against the proposal that novel utterances are formed by analogy with stored exemplars that are close in meaning. Strings of words that are similar in meaning or even identical can behave very differently once inserted into different syntactic environments. Furthermore, phrases with similar meanings but different underlying syntactic structures can give rise to disparities in meaning in particular contexts. In short, analogy falls short of explaining both adult knowledge of language and children's syntactic development. [For Ben Ambridge's "Against Stored Abstractions: A Radical Exemplar Model of Language Acquisition," see EJ1269951.]
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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