A program for phonotactic theory*
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This study has two distinct, complementary aims. The first is to outline the empirical scope of phonotactic theory, the theory of speakers’ knowledge of possible and impossible (or likely and unlikely) words, and to put forth a simple hypothesis for the architectural underlying this knowledge. The second is to argue that the increasingly popular view of phonotactics and phonotactic learning as a type of statistical inference is incapable of accounting for the facts of this domain.
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