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Lexical storage and regular processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Geert Booij
Affiliation:
Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The [email protected]

Abstract

Clahsen's claim that output forms of productive processes are never listed in the lexicon is a consequence of the rule/list fallacy, empirically incorrect, and not necessary for the hypothesis that the human language faculty has a dual structure, that is, a lexicon and a set of rules.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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