overgeneralization

Related Term(s)

Sources

• AKMAJIAN etal. 1984 470

  AKMAJIAN, Adrian, DEMERS, Richard A., & HARNISH, Robert M. (1984) Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

• ELL 5152

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

• CRYSTAL 2003 198, 331

  CRYSTAL, David. (2003) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 5th Ed Oxford: Blackwell.

• FINCH 2000 229 (over-generalisation = over-extension)

  FINCH, Geoffrey. (2000) Linguistic Terms and Concepts. New York: St. Martin's Press.

• RICHARDS etal. 1992 260 (= over-extension, over-regularization, analogy; also "overgeneralize")

  RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT, J. & WEBER, H. (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.