Reconciling diverging frequency effects in inflectional defectiveness
A study of Peninsular Spanish verbs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159257 |
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| Authors | Charlie Rowe (The Ohio State University), Maria Copot (0000-0001-5182-9482, University of Surrey), Andrea D Sims (0000-0002-0239-3050, The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6111 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v11i1.6111 |
| OpenAlex | W7162068990 |
| Language | EN |
In his study of defective Spanish verbs, Albright (2003) found speakers’ form judgments to be positively correlate with lexeme frequency. For defective French verbs, however, speakers’ judgments are negatively correlated with lexeme frequency (Copot & Sims 2025). What is the source of these diverging observations? We test the role of methodological choices by using Copot & Sims’s experimental design to investigate Spanish verbal defectiveness. The results confirm Albright’s findings, but only for the subset of verbs drawn from his study. We briefly consider implications for the phenomenology of defectiveness
Lexeme · Verb · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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