Pinkerian Words-and-Rules Simulacrum
Regular and irregular inflection as two mechanisms
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The past tense of fly is flew, unless a baseball player did it, in which case he flied out. The sound is identical and the answer differs — so sound alone cannot be the input to the system.
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