Following Pinker [Pinker, S., 1989, Markedness and language development, in Matthews, R. & Demopoulos, W., eds., “Learnability and linguistic theory”, Dordrecht, Holland, Kluver, pp. 107-128], one can assume that marked rules demand greater representational strenght because they are by definition the less robust member in a contrastive relationship with the unmarked member.
- Zobl & Liceras (2004), a pag.236