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Stemmer, Nathan. 1978. Similarity, creativity, and empiricism. In Peng, Fred C.C. and Walburga Von Raffler-Engel, eds. Language acquisition and developmental kinesics. Bunka Hyoron. pp. 60–69.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

creativity | empiricism | first language acquisition

Annotation

S. argues for empiricist theories of language acquisition, and tries to show how they can account for the creativity of interlocutors. The arguments start from observations on physical and functional similarity.