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The dual nature of the language faculty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Harald Clahsen
Harald Clahsen
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Department of Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, United Kingdomharald@essex.ac.uk http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~harald
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Abstract

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The following discussion aims to illuminate further the way in which morphologically complex words are represented in the mental lexicon. It is argued that the dual-mechanism model can accommodate the linguistic and psycholinguistic evidence currently available, not only on German inflection (as pointed out in the target article) but also on other languages (as presented in several commentaries). Associative single-mechanism models of inflection, on the other hand, provide only partial accounts.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1046 - 1055
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press