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Pitfalls in tracking the psychological reality of lexically based and rule-based inflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Etta Drews
Etta Drews
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Germanye.drews@psych.uni-halle.de
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Abstract

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Clahsen reports the results from two sets of word-recognition experiments with adult native speakers of German supporting the notion that the processing of regular (or default) inflection differs from the processing of irregular inflection. My commentary points to shortcomings in stimulus selection and inconsistencies in the pattern of results, revealing that the empirical support for the proposed dual mechanism is much weaker than Clahsen suggests.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1022 - 1023
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press