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Van Wijk's study of Dutch plurals provides a valuable contribution to the discussion of default rules in language. The outcome of this dissertation asks for a serious reconsideration of the claim, as made in Pinker's (1999) words and rules theory, that default rules are unique and, as such, insensitive to phonological and semantic regularities of the stem. Dutch allows, for instance, the pluralization of novel words, names, acronyms, and loanwords with two different suffixes, -en and -s, which is not...