Re: THEORY: storage v computation (was: RE: Language revival)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 28, 1999, 20:14 |
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And Rosta wrote:
> But the
> lesson is clear: in production, irregularity appears to confer
> no benefits (if the experimental findings are correct).
But, it confers no HARM either. This seems to suggest that both regular
and irregular forms are stored, i.e., "cook/cooked" and "run/ran" are
both stored without computation. If one were computed, and the other
stored, one would expect one to be faster than the other.
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