Dissociation in Italian Conjugations: A Single-Route Account

Keywords

analogical modeling of language, default, Italian language, single-route, dual-route, verbal inflection, conjugation

Abstract

Say and Clahsen (S&C) report an experiment involving assignment of past participle suffixes to nonce words in Italian. Their evidence suggests a dual-route model that assigns the theme vowel of the 1st conjugation, while storing it lexically in other conjugations. However, these nonce words were assigned suffixes by a computer algorithm that determined the past participle of the nonce items on the basis of phonological similarity to existing inflected forms. The outcome of the simulation mirrors that of the subjects closely, suggesting that the dissociations found by S&C are not adequate evidence for a dual-route model of Italian stem formation.

Original Publication Citation

2002. “Dissociation in Italian Conjugations: A Single-route Account.” Brain and Language 81.291-302

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2002

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Full Professor

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