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Psycholinguistics

the theory that regular forms like 'walked' come from rules while irregular forms like 'went' are stored in memory.

In psycholinguistics, words-and-rules theory refers to the theory that regular forms like 'walked' come from rules while irregular forms like 'went' are stored in memory. This meaning comes from Pinker (1991) in Science.[1]

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  1. Pinker, S. (1991). Rules of Language. Science, 253(5019), 530-535. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1857983

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