试题题干
Directions: Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false in the brackets in front of each statement. If you think a statement is false, you must explain why you think so.
Another kind of change that can be thought of as “economy of memory” results in a reduction of the number of exceptional or irregular morphemes. For example, children and adults are presently saying I dreamed last night (instead of dreamt). This kind of change has been called rule simplification.
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试题解析
本题考查内部借用的定义。
另一种可以被认为是“记忆经济”的变化导致特殊语素或不规则语素的数量减少。例如，儿童和成人现在说I dreamed last night (instead of dreamt).。这种变化被称为内部借用。
而题干所说的规则的简化是一种自发的形态规则变化，涉及的是一些特殊的名词复数形式。所以题干的解释和名词不对应。