Rules and rote: Beyond the linguistic either-or fallacy

Robert Schreuder; Nivja de Jong; Andrea Krott; Harald Baayen

doi:10.1017/S0140525X9947222X

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We report an experiment that unambiguously shows an effect of full-form frequency for fully regular Dutch inflected verbs falling into Clahsen's “default” category, negating Clahsen's claim that regular complex words in the default category are not stored.

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