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Use impacts morphological representation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Joan Bybee
Affiliation:
Linguistics Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 81731 jbybee@unm.edu www.unm.edu/~jbybee/

Abstract

The distinction between regular and irregular morphology is not clear-cut enough to suggest two distinct modular structures. Instead, regularity is tied directly to the type frequency of a pattern. Evidence from experiments as well as from naturally occurring sound change suggests that even regular forms have lexical storage. Finally, the development trajectory entailed by the dual-processing model is much more complex than that entailed by associative network models.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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