storage vs. computation

[Jeffrey P. Kaplan]

A few years ago my then-3- or 4-year old spontaneously remarked that a
three-tined fork was not a fork but actually a "threek."  Under
elicitation, he proceeded to predict a [tuk] and a [w^nk] ("onek") (with
velar nasal).

Jeff Kaplan





Jeffrey P. Kaplan
Linguistics
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
619-594-5879
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