ppl of "strode"

[Mark A. Mandel]

(Apologies for not threading with the exact subject line, but it comes
out here as

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That is, equal-sign question-mark ISO-8859-1 question-mark Q
question-mark ... and more such junk.)

Arnold of Zwicky, or arnold of zwicky, writes:

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once you've registered "strode" as the past tense form, there are then
four possible analogies giving a past participle:

1.  pple = past + n: stroden (cf. weave - wove - woven)
2.  pple = pres + n: striden (cf. take - took - taken)
3.  pple = ablaut past: strode (cf. find - found - found)
4.  pple = special stem + n: stridden (cf. drive - drove - driven)

the first three of these have relatively few exemplars, and no exemplar
with /ay/ in the present and /o/ in the past (like "stride" -
"strode").  only the fourth has any legs, and it rests on just four
verbs with any great frequency: drive, ride, rise, write.  (note that
all of these have /r/ before the /ay/, and that three of the four have
an alveolar obstruent after it.  so "stride" fits well into this
class.)

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What's more, it *rhymes* with "ride"-- as close a model as you'll find.
That should be an even stronger "argument" to the speaker's mind than
"alveolar obstruent".

-- Mark A. Mandel
   Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania