Dissociation in Italian Conjugations: A Single-Route Account. Eddington, D. Brain Lang., 81(1-3):291 - 302, 2002.
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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.
@Article{Eddington2002,
  author   = {David Eddington},
  journal  = {Brain Lang.},
  title    = {Dissociation in Italian Conjugations: A Single-Route Account},
  year     = {2002},
  number   = {1-3},
  pages    = {291 - 302},
  volume   = {81},
  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.},
  doi      = {DOI: 10.1006/brln.2001.2525},
  keywords = {Key Words: analogical modeling of language; default; Italian language; single-route; dual-route; verbal inflection; conjugation},
}

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