German Noun Plurals: A Challenge to the Dual-Mechanism Model

In this article, the authors test one of the central claims of the Dual-Mechanism Model (Pinker & Prince, 1994), that is, that regular inflection equals default inflection. Based on results from an elicitation task with eight agrammatic Broca's aphasics and a lexical decision task with unim...

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Published inBrain and language Vol. 81; no. 1-3; pp. 303 - 311
Main Authors Penke, Martina, Krause, Marion
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.04.2002
Subjects
Adult
Affixes
Aged
Aphasia, Broca - diagnosis
Broca's aphasia
Decision Making
Dual-Mechanism Model
Female
German
Humans
Inflection
Key Words: German
Language
Lexical Access
Linguistics
Male
Middle Aged
Morphological Processing
morphology
Nouns
Number
plural inflection
Reaction Time
Vocabulary
Dual-Mechanism Model
Broca's aphasia
morphology
Key Words: German
plural inflection
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Summary:In this article, the authors test one of the central claims of the Dual-Mechanism Model (Pinker & Prince, 1994), that is, that regular inflection equals default inflection. Based on results from an elicitation task with eight agrammatic Broca's aphasics and a lexical decision task with unimpaired subjects, the authors show that this assumption is not borne out. Their data on German plural inflection rather indicate that regular inflection is not necessarily identical to default inflection. To capture the German data, they have to assume regular but input-restricted inflection besides regular default inflection.
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ISSN:0093-934X
1090-2155
DOI:10.1006/brln.2001.2526