English
The central hypothesis of this research project is that morphophonological adjustment processes manifest themselves especially and more pervasively in higher-frequency words. The three sub-projects investigate three different aspects of the role of frequency. Surveys of the corpus of spoken Dutch are combined with psycholinguistic experimentation with the aim of clarifying the role of absolute and relative frequency, the role of exemplars in lexical memory, and the role of speaker-specific variation in language experience.
