Steven Pinker

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Steven Pinker plays a role.

Journals

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Language and Dialogue (LD)

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E-ISSN 2210-4127
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Scientific Study of Literature (SSOL)

Edited by David I. Hanauer

ISSN 2210-4372 | E-ISSN 2210-4380

Articles

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Berent, Iris and Steven Pinker 2008 Compound formation is constrained by morphology: A reply to Seidenberg, MacDonald & Haskell The Mental Lexicon 3:2, pp. 176–187 | Article
Why do compounds containing regular plurals, such as rats-infested, sound so much worse than corresponding compounds containing irregular plurals, such as mice-infested? Berent and Pinker (2007) reported five experiments showing that this theoretically important effect hinges on the morphological… read more
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Berent, Iris and Steven Pinker 2007 The dislike of regular plurals in compounds: Phonological familiarity or morphological constraint? The Mental Lexicon 2:2, pp. 129–181 | Article
English speakers disfavor compounds containing regular plurals compared to irregular ones. Haskell, MacDonald and Seidenberg (2003) attribute this phenomenon to the rarity of compounds containing words with the phonological properties of regular plurals. Five experiments test this proposal.… read more
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Pinker, Steven and Alan Prince 1994 Regular and Irregular Morphology and the Psychological Status of Rules of Grammar The Reality of Linguistic Rules, Lima, Susan D., Roberta Corrigan and Gregory Iverson, pp. 321–352 | Article