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Inflectional classes, defaults, and syncretisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Andrew Spencer
Affiliation:
Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Englandspena@essex.ac.uk private www.essex.ac.uk/~spena

Abstract

I argue for an extension of Clahsen's psycholinguistic paradigm to well-known languages with more complex morphological systems. This would help to address conceptual questions such as the nature of defaults and the way in which syncretisms are coded in the brain.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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