Ambridge’s proposal cannot account for the most basic observations about phonological patterns in human languages. Outside of the earliest stages of phonological production by toddlers, the phonological systems of speakers/learners exhibit internal behaviours that point to the representation and processing of inter-related units ranging in size from sub-segmental (featural) and segmental to larger prosodic units ranging from the syllable all the way to the phonological utterance. Only theories which embrace these units can make proper predictions about phonological behaviours.

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没有抽象类别就没有音韵学：安布里奇评论（2020）

Ambridge 的提议无法解释关于人类语言语音模式的最基本观察。在幼儿语音产生的最早阶段之外，说话者/学习者的语音系统表现出内部行为，这些行为指向相互关联的单元的表示和处理，其大小范围从子片段（特征）和片段到更大的韵律单位范围从音节一直到语音发音。只有包含这些单位的理论才能对语音行为做出正确的预测。