{"id":8744,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonotactics\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:02","slug":"phonotactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonotactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonotactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A domain of speech sciences (viz., phonology) thatfocuses on the freedoms and restrictions in a given language on permissible combinations ofvowels and consonants in syllables and words (e.g, types of consonantcombinations for clusters in English such that <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">mb<\/span> never occurs, but does so in Irish). &nbsp;All told, language-related phonotatics dictate which sounds precede and follow each other, whether or not a language has syllable consonants (and which ones), and which sounds can occur in a <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/SYLLABLE%20CODA\/en-en\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/dictionary.sensagent.com\/SYLLABLE%20CODA\/en-en\/?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">syllable coda<\/a>. &nbsp;Interest in the cross-linguistic variation in syllablic structure has given rise to the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/phonotactics.anu.edu.au\/\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/phonotactics.anu.edu.au?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Phonotactics Database<\/a>, which provides data on phonotactic patterns across more 2000 languages and a further 1700 for segmental data. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022096504001109\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022096504001109?target=_self\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Findings related to 2-3 year-olds<\/a>&nbsp;indicates that at this age, children are already attuned the phonotactic structure of English, and that such sensitivity increases with development. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"phonology\">Phonology<\/a>, <a href=\"statistical_learning\">Statistical learning<\/a>, <a href=\"syllabic_structure\">Syllabic structure<\/a>, <a href=\"syllables\">Syllables<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A domain of speech sciences (viz., phonology) thatfocuses on the freedoms and restrictions in a given language on permissible combinations ofvowels and consonants in syllables and words (e.g, types of consonantcombinations for clusters in English such that mb never occurs, but does so in Irish). &nbsp;All told, language-related phonotatics dictate which sounds precede and follow &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phonotactics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phonotactics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}