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Diachronic evidence for a dual-mechanism approach to inflection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 1999
Abstract
The received view in historical linguistics is that there is always an inverse relation between token frequency and likelihood of analogical change. I have found evidence, however, of a sharp difference in frequency effects between regularization and nonregularizing analogical change. I argue that this difference can easily be accounted for by dual-mechanism models of inflection but is very problematic for pure associative-memory models.
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