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@MISC{Burzio99missingplayers:,
author = {Luigi Burzio},
title = {Missing Players: Phonology and the Past-tense Debate},
year = {1999}
}
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The proposition that the mental lexicon is a `dual route' system, advanced by Pinker and others to account for regular and irregular morphology, overlooks the important fact that morphological regularity correlates inversely with phonological regularity --`regular' past-tense beeped being phonologically irregular (exceptional syllable), while `irregular' past-tense kept is phonologically just regular. I argue that the correlation, which is general, can only be captured under a single-rather than `dual'- architecture, and an associational-rather than rule based- theory of morphology. Where morphological associations are strong, morphology looks regular and phonological alternations are inhibited, making phonology look irregular. In a system in which regularities are attributed to `rules', rules should be able to coexist with other rules, and morphological and phonological regularities should correlate directly, rather than inversely. 1.
