Re: Phonotactics?
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03 |
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On Sunday, December 7, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Roger Mills wrote:
> 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 name, or have I got an outdated version (d/l'ed the LCK in Oct 2002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.
Or, alternations among contrastive elements, usually conditioned by
morphology. English /s/ and /z/ are contrastive, but their alternation
*in the plural* (morphological conditioning) is rule-governed.
How does Kash metathesis work? Is there a morpheme boundary between the
/r/ and the stop?
Dirk
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