children make analogies across whole utterances (structure alignment and mapping).

functionally based distributional analysis, in which the learner groups together into categories those linguistic items that function similarlythat is, consistently play similar communicative rolesin different utterances and constructions

analogy subject-object distributional analysis noun and verb categories. There seems not to be syntactic categories per se, but cognitive structures and communicative functions. Subjects seem to have different functions: agent, patient or located object. Look at syntactic roles analogy takes different elements simultaneously.