Deutsche Plurale im mentalen Lexikon

According to the Dual Mechanism Model (Pinker 1999) the distinction between regular and irregular inflection determines the way in which complex word forms are represented and processed. The German plural system, exhibiting multiple allomorphs and subregularities, provides an appropriate test case for this model. Experimental results lead to an extended and refined Dual Model operating on two different levels of lexical processing, in which the dual distinction between storage and computation does not only hold for an inflectional system as a whole, but also within subsystems, e.g. -n plural forms.