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.

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就像洗碗精一样，所有类比都不相同：《关于安布里奇（2020）》的评论

这种回应与这样的提议相抵触：新的话语是通过与含义相似的存储样本进行类比而形成的。一旦插入不同的语法环境，含义相似或什至相同的单词字符串的行为可能会非常不同。此外，在特定上下文中，具有相似含义但具有不同潜在句法结构的短语可能会导致含义上的差异。简而言之，类比不足以解释成人的语言知识和儿童的句法发展。