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Direct linkNicoladis, Elena; Murphy, Victoria A. – Brain and Language, 2004
English-speaking children typically avoid using regular plurals in novel grammatical deverbal compounds as in "rat eater" but allow irregular plurals as in "mice eater" (Gordon, 1985). To explain these data, it has been argued that Kiparsky's (1983) level-ordering model constrains the production of morphologically complex…
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