LING 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Word Formation, English Compound, Sail Components
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The main difference between the two models relates to what they assume about frequency. On the rule-based account, it doesn"t matter if a verb is frequent or infrequent (or similar to a frequent or infrequent verb). There will be a preference for applying the. This approach assumes that you want to apply the rule as much as you can. On the single route model, frequency is crucial. The more exemplars you have that are similar to each other, the more likely you are to assume that a novel verb that is phonologically similar to them will behave in the same way, either regular or irregular. E. g. , sing" and ring" both become sang" and rang" children can overgeneralize and say that bring" becomes brang" because they assign it to the same category as sing" and ring". Brought" is an irregular form and must be stored in the lexicon.
