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Direct linkKoring, Loes; Giblin, Iain; Thornton, Rosalind; Crain, Stephen – First Language, 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…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Figurative Language, Syntax, Phrase Structure
Fodor, Janet Dean; Crain, Stephen – 1984
An alternative to the standard theory that language learners always formulate the simplest rule to accommodate data is proposed. This new position states that the system of formulating rules and the generalizations made from it by children and adults in the stages of language learning needs to be more specific. The present theory excludes the use…
Descriptors: Child Language, Error Patterns, Generalization, Grammar
