Re: Phonotactics?

Carsten:

Phonotactic statements are statements about the distribution of
phonological elements. Rosenfelder's LCK discusses this briefly in the
section on phonological constraints.

Dirk

On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 10:31  AM, Carsten Becker wrote:

> From: "Greg Johnston" <greg.johnstons@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 2:13 PM
> Subject: Re: Phonotactics?
>
>> For my language BCLM, I created my own phonotactics based on what I
>> learned from LCK. This system was terible. I changed it to fit a word
>> I
>> had made. It remained rather bad. Eventually, I just about reversed
>> the
>> entire system.
>>
>> In short, make up your own and play around with it. It's what I did.
>
> 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 name, or have I got an outdated version (d/l'ed the LCK in Oct 2002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)?
>
> I'd be grateful for an explanation,
> Carsten
>
>
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Dirk Elzinga
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