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Words, Rules and Stems in the Italian Mental Lexicon

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Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ((SITP,volume 30))

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Psycholinguistic evidence from different sources (child language acquisition data and experimental data from adult native speakers) indicates that stem formation and inflectional processes in Italian show a distinction between rule-based and memory-based processes. The findings are interpreted as providing cross-linguistic support for the dual-mechanism model.

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  1. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

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    Fred Weerman

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Say, T., Clahsen, H. (2002). Words, Rules and Stems in the Italian Mental Lexicon. In: Nooteboom, S., Weerman, F., Wijnen, F. (eds) Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0355-1_4

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