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On the cross-linguistic validity of a dual-mechanism model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Margherita Orsolini
Margherita Orsolini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e di Socializzazione, Università “La Sapienza,” 00185 Rome, Italyorsolini@axrma.uniromal.it
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Abstract

Recent studies of Italian past definite and past participle forms show that human performance with regular and irregular inflections is not dissociated as Clahsen's model would predict. Some performance profiles, accounted for by dual-mechanism models in terms of an underlying symbol-manipulating combinatorial procedure, are generated in Italian by the higher learnability and generalizability of phonologically regular morphological processes.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 6 , December 1999 , pp. 1033 - 1035
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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