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Diachronic evidence for a dual-mechanism approach to inflection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

David Fertig
David Fertig
Affiliation:
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14226 [email protected] wings.buffalo.edu/cas/mll/lunz/home.htm
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Abstract

The received view in historical linguistics is that there is always an inverse relation between token frequency and likelihood of analogical change. I have found evidence, however, of a sharp difference in frequency effects between regularization and nonregularizing analogical change. I argue that this difference can easily be accounted for by dual-mechanism models of inflection but is very problematic for pure associative-memory models.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1023 - 1024
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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