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Polylogues on The Mental Lexicon: An exploration of fundamental issues and directions
Edited by Gary Libben, Gonia Jarema and Victor Kuperman
[Not in series 238] 2021
► pp. 187–220

Chapter 7
Morphological schemas

Theoretical and psycholinguistic issues

| Tufts University | MIT
| Leiden University
Article outline
  • Thesis
  • Commentaries on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
    • James Myers commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
    • Dorit Ravid commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
    • Russell Richie commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
    • Benjamin Tucker commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
    • Chris Westbury commentary on Jackendoff and Audring thesis
  • The Article
    • 1.Overall goals
    • 2.Representations in relational morphology
      • 2.1Rules, reconceived as schemas, are in the lexicon
      • 2.2Two functions of schemas
      • 2.3Inheritance: Spelling out the relational function
      • 2.4Summary so far and prospectus
    • 3.Acquisition of productive schemas relies on the relational function
    • 4.Theory of processing: Basic assumptions
    • 5.Schemas in processing
    • 6.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 13 October 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.238.07jac
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