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 * Name of article: Abstraction (linguistics)
 * This article has been rated as Start-Class on the WikiProject Linguistics quality scale.

Lead
- The introductory sentence does not provide a definition.

- The lead introduces two sections: Object abstraction and Abstraction used by linguists, both of which are more thoroughly discussed in the article.

- The lead is concise

Content
Object abstraction

- book example, through example (the book example comes from an Chomsky interview from the late 90s, and the through example comes from a "controversial" book from 1786)

- the through example is admittedly "controversial" and obviously dated (the author even later states that Tooke was incorrect in his judgements)

Abstraction used by linguists

- This section also boasts references (Carnap 1942, Morris 1938)

- Name dropping

- "The relation between abstraction and Morris' influential trichotomy is a matter of ongoing discussion." - where is this ongoing discussion and what are they saying

- The note on Emic units is negligibly undeveloped.

Tone and Balance
- There is occasional name dropping (Abstraction used by linguists)

- Viewpoints from dated schools of linguistic thought are overrepresented. Modern thought is glossed over.

Sources and References
- Under Object abstraction, some claims lack references (claims on language acquisition)

- All sources are significantly dated.

- The subsection on Emic units lacks citations entirely

Organization
- There are some strange turns of phrase e.g. "cashed out" under the subsection Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.

- The overall structure of the article fits with the structure of the lead. However, more structure separating ideas developed in each section would be beneficial.

Images and Media
- There are no images

Checking the talk page
- So far there are no discussions on the Talk page.

- This article is part of WikiProject Linguistics, Start-Class, Mid-Importance

Overall impressions
- This article needs to be updated with more current resources. This would bring prototype and other semantic theory we have reviewed in class into the discussion.

- For the information it covers, this article is well-organized.

- It could use more information and more development in the information it already contains.

- I would say that this article is in the starting phase.