The lexical bases of morphological well-formedness
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1. Introduction Not all words, real or novel, are created equal — some sound better than others, either for phonological or for morphological reasons. That is, well-formedness is a gradient notion. One simple way to measure gradient well-formedness is through acceptability ratings. For example, native English speakers generally agree that there are several conceivable past tenses for the made-up verb spling, but not all of these competing possibilities are equally plausible or well-formed:
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