Chapter 3. Rules and regularities

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Chapter 3
Rules and regularities

Published online: 29 August 2024

Article outline

3.1What’s in this chapter
3.2A role for rules
3.3Asymmetric merge
3.4Combine/Concatenation and label
3.5Where is the labeler in a sentence and when does it do its job in the derivation?
3.6Which labels are processed at the FGI?
3.7Labels and frequency
3.8An example of frequency-independent labeling: Auxiliary selection in Italian
3.9Auxiliary selection from a regularity-driven perspective
3.10Regularities do not concern isolated items
3.11Statistical information features two kinds of regularity
3.12The statistical information in absentia concerns patterns-of-usage
3.13Statistical information is supported by procedural memory
3.14Linear statistical information: Chunks and chunking
3.15Vertical statistical information: Skewed associations and asymmetric chunks
3.16Asymmetric chunks and contingency learning
3.17Related and unrelated contingency
3.18To sum up