Concept information
Preferred term
analogy
Definition
- A process of regularization which affects the exceptional forms in the grammar of a language. (A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics, David Crystal, 2008)
Broader concept
Synonym(s)
- analogy principle
Example
- Most analogies involve terms that are within the nearest neighborhood of each other when ranked according to similarity (Linzen 2016). (De Vine, Geva & Bruza, 2018)
- The use of analogy has played an especially important role in the study of language language change and language acquisition and learning (Kiparsky 1992). (De Vine, Geva & Bruza, 2018)
In other languages
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French
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principe d'analogie
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-P4Z31PJR-H
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