A connectionist account of the emergence of the literal-metaphorical-anomalous distinction in young children

摘要: We present the first developmental computational model of metaphor comprehension, which seeks to relate emergence a distinction between literal and non-literal similarity in young children development semantic representations. The gradually learns distinguish from metaphorical juxtapositions as it acquires more knowledge about vehicle domain. In accordance with Keil (1986), separation comparisons is found depend on maturity concept stored within network. generates number explicit novel predictions.