Re: Phonotactics?
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, December 7, 2003, 19:08 |
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Chris Wright wrote:
> Carsten Becker palsalge
> >What actually does "phonotactics" mean? AFAIK, the LCK does not call them
by
> >name, or have I got an outdated version (d/l'ed the LCK in Oct 2002
IIRC)?
>
> Syllable structure and sonority rules, right? Basically, how you can
arrange
> sounds into words. And probably also your phonological inventory,
allophonic
> variation, that sort of thing.
>
> Now someone's going to correct me, I hope.
No, but you can add _morphophonemics_ -- things like the 3 regular variants
of Engl. {PL},[s ~z ~@z], Sanskrit a+i > e, Slavic palatalizations bog 'God'
boZ- '(oblique cases involving front vowels)'; Kash r+stop > stop+r, etc.
etc. Basically, changes in the word-form dictated by rule.
At least, such is my understanding of the term.
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