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

• Published in: Brain and language Vol. 81; no. 1-3; pp. 303 - 311
• Main Authors: Penke, Martina, Krause, Marion
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...