Similarity, Analogy and Development in Radical Exemplar Theory: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)

Autor/inn/en	Lieven, Elena; Ferry, Alissa; Theakston, Anna; Twomey, Katherine E.
Titel	Similarity, Analogy and Development in Radical Exemplar Theory: A Commentary on Ambridge (2020)
Quelle	In: First Language, 40 (2020) 5-6, S.600-603 (4 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Lieven, Elena)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7237
DOI	10.1177/0142723720909554
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Language Acquisition; Children; Generalization; Abstract Reasoning; Language Processing; Figurative Language; Linguistic Theory; Computational Linguistics; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Child; Kind; Kinder; Abstraktes Denken; Denken; Sprachverarbeitung; Linguistische Theorie; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Analogiemodell
Abstract	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 generalisations are based on similarity to individual exemplars. However, to move our understanding forward, radical exemplar theory must include clearly specified mechanisms for analogy and similarity computation, and must account for changes in children's generalisations across development. [For Ben Ambridge's "Against Stored Abstractions: A Radical Exemplar Model of Language Acquisition," see EJ1269951.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01