Pinker Proposes That in Order to "Morph" Words into Different

question 43

Multiple Choice

Pinker proposes that in order to "morph" words into different forms (i.e. ,past tense) ,we have

• A)one system that is associative;we encode associations between the past and present tense and use them to retrieve one another.
• B)one system that operates via rules;we use these rules (e.g. ,"add an -s to make a plural")to morph words.
• C)two systems;we use the rule system for exceptions and the associative system for non-exceptions.
• D)two systems;we use the rule system for non-exceptions and the associative system for exceptions.

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