{"pk":31731,"title":"German Inflection: The Exception That Proves The Rule","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Connectionist models of language equate default\ninflection {e.g., fax-faxed) with high frequency, while\nsymbolic models compute regular inflection through\nthe application of a mental rule which is independent\nof high frequency. The German -S plural is low\nfrequency (7.2% of types) but in an experiment with\nnovel nouns, w e show that -s behaves as a default.\nThis argues against the connectionist model of\ninflection, but in favor of symbolic models.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Submitted Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mc5w1bx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Gary","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marcus","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universitat DUsseldorf","department":""},{"first_name":"Ursula","middle_name":"","last_name":"Brinkmann","name_suffix":"","institution":"NL-6500 AH Nijmegen","department":""},{"first_name":"Harald","middle_name":"","last_name":"Clahsen","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universitat Dusseldorf","department":""},{"first_name":"Richard","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wiese","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universitat Dusseldorf","department":""},{"first_name":"Andreas","middle_name":"","last_name":"Woest","name_suffix":"","institution":"Universitat Dusseldorf","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pinker","name_suffix":"","institution":"Massachusetts Institute of Technology","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1993-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/31731/galley/22799/download/"}]}