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The processing of inflected forms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 1999

Charles Clifton,
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 cec@psych.umass.edu www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~cec
Anne Cutler
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands{anne.cutler; james.mcqueen}@mpi.nl www.mpi.nl/world/persons/profession/{anne.html; james.html}
James M. McQueen
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands{anne.cutler; james.mcqueen}@mpi.nl www.mpi.nl/world/persons/profession/{anne.html; james.html}
Brit van Ooijen
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique CNRS, Paris 75006, Francebrit@lscp.ehess.fr

Abstract

Clahsen proposes two distinct processing routes, for regularly and irregularly inflected forms, respectively, and thus is apparently making a psychological claim. We argue that his position, which embodies a strictly linguistic perspective, does not constitute a psychological processing model.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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