Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1999 · 33 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsLanguage AcquisitionMorphologySyntaxInflectional MorphologyMorphological AcquisitionMorphological AnalysisMorphological ProductivityMorphological TheoryWord FormationCollapsingConcatenative MorphologyFirst Language DevelopmentFirst Language Morphological AcquisitionMorphological RegularityMorphological StructureRegular Inflectional MorphologyTree Collapsing
Clahsen's conception of inflectional rules – as being not only regular, but simultaneously only concatenative (combinatorial), general and productive, representing the default, not occurring in interfixation within German compounds, and identical to the first rules to be acquired in first-language acquisition – involves an unwarranted collapsing of morphological concepts.