The dual nature of the language faculty - Response

The following discussion aims to illuminate further the way in which morpho logically complex words are represented in the mental lexicon. It is argued that the dual-mechanism model can accommodate the linguistic and psycholin guistic evidence currently available, not only on German inflection (as poi nted out in the target article) but also on other languages (as presented i n several commentaries). Associative singie-mechanism models of inflection, on the other hand, provide only partial accounts.