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They examined children's understanding of synonymy, which like homonymy requires children to understand the relationship between linguistic form and meaning.
Children learn to accept two labels for the same object (synonymy).
They chose to test the hypothesis that children avoid synonymy in the early stages of lexical development.
As we all know, synonymy in language does not yield to the mathematical law that states that things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
Scholars have long noted a tendency for languages to avoid synonymy.
Since homonymy is very similar to synonymy, the argument can be extended to the case of homonyms.
Such strategies should also enable students to enrich their vocabularies over time, especially in the case of synonymy and paraphrase anaphors.
Relevant links for message retrieval are not confined to synonymy.
But the existence of synonymy in the task leaves the interpretation of the processes involved somewhat uncertain.
For example, he builds a logic which explains the synonymy of (12), with sentence negation, and (13), with predicate negation (399).
But they also differ semantically despite an apparent synonymy which comes from the reduplicated verb form and -am.
These difficulties with synonymy would be predicted by either the metalinguistic deficit account or the metalinguistic one-to-one mapping account.
There, the strict separation between meaning and form crucially rests on the assumption of absolute synonymy between processes.
The synonymy blocking account offered above explains why no inter pretation problems arise where otherwise they might.
However, synonymy tends to be interpreted more narrowly, as the relation between distinct words that share the same meaning.
This definition of synonymy in terms of truth value emphasizes its dichotomous rather than its continuous nature: words are either synonymous or they are not.
This weaker definition of synonymy is a basic premise in the scientific study of meaning.
Where there is room for doubt as to the synonymy of two names, this has been freely admitted.
Therefore, the species studied were systematically revisited, several synonymies were proposed, and the taxonomic validity and relationships of genera and subgenera involved were established.
