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And Rosta scripsit: > The engineering rationale is that (supposedly) > forms whose phonological shape shows them to be inflected are > morphologically parsed before the word is looked up in the lexicon, AFAIK, the process is in fact a parallel one: words are looked up at the same time the parser is running. And in fact familiar bimorphemic words like "cats" are recognized before unfamiliar ones like "zats", suggesting that "cats" has a lexicon entry of its own, linked to "cat" of course. On the production side, children generate bad regulars like "bited" in inverse proportion to the frequency of the irregular form: if they have not heard "bit" often enough, it takes too long to recall, and the morphological generator wins the race. -- John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_