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This chapter addresses the balance of storage and computation in the mental lexicon for fully regular and productive inflectional processes in Dutch. We present evidence that both regular inflected nouns and regular inflected verbs show clear and robust effects of storage, but that at the same time on-line parsing also plays a role. We argue that the balance of storage and computation cannot be predicted on the basis of economy of linguistic description. Instead, a range of cognitive and linguistic factors are crucial determinants.
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Baayen, H., Schreuder, R., de Jong, N., Krott, A. (2002). Dutch Inflection: The Rules that Prove the Exception. In: Nooteboom, S., Weerman, F., Wijnen, F. (eds) Storage and Computation in the Language Faculty. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0355-1_3
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