Hoe people are happy to use a rule like Add-eed whenever their memory does not supply an inflected form.
Rule processing or memory associations are the main motor of productivity in language.
Rules will show their worth, and pattern associators their limitations, because of the kind of information captured in words, not how many words of various types there are.
Language is a direct conversion from meaning to sound, the extra input features are semantic
If a new word is formed from an old irregular word by prefixing, the new word stays irregular.
New nouns constantly are being formed by compounding a word onto an existing noun.
Using a noun as a metaphor also does nothing to its irregularity.
Words are stored in the mental dictionary but in a standard format called a root
Rules don't just throw words or parts of words together; they provide a scheme in which the properties of the new combination can be computed from the properties of the parts and the way they are arranged.
Word structure theory, structure of a word determines whether it gets to keep an irregular form.The essence of words (the root) the essence of rules (the head)
A root specifies the word's sound, which conforms to a regulation template for standard words in the language.
English spelling is a rule system that connects the sounds of words with their written form.
Irregular forms are stored in memory, regular forms don't have to be.
Rules are living things inhabiting people's minds.
Rule processing or memory associations are the main motor of productivity in language.
Rules will show their worth, and pattern associators their limitations, because of the kind of information captured in words, not how many words of various types there are.
Language is a direct conversion from meaning to sound, the extra input features are semantic
If a new word is formed from an old irregular word by prefixing, the new word stays irregular.
New nouns constantly are being formed by compounding a word onto an existing noun.
Using a noun as a metaphor also does nothing to its irregularity.
Words are stored in the mental dictionary but in a standard format called a root
Rules don't just throw words or parts of words together; they provide a scheme in which the properties of the new combination can be computed from the properties of the parts and the way they are arranged.
Word structure theory, structure of a word determines whether it gets to keep an irregular form.The essence of words (the root) the essence of rules (the head)
A root specifies the word's sound, which conforms to a regulation template for standard words in the language.
English spelling is a rule system that connects the sounds of words with their written form.
Irregular forms are stored in memory, regular forms don't have to be.
Rules are living things inhabiting people's minds.