English speakers’ sensitivity to phonotactic patterns

Rebecca Treiman A · Brett Kessler A · Ruth Tincoff · Margo Bowman

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* This research was supported by NSF Grant SBR 94-08456. We are grateful to the staff and children at the Walt Disney Elementary School for their cooperation, and to Kira Rodriguez for helpful comments on a draft of the manuscript. Linguists have often observed absolute restrictions in the patterning of phonemes in languages. Certain phonemes and sequences of phonemes commonly occur in a language whereas other phonemes and sequences of phonemes do not occur. For example, English does not allow /h / or /uŋ / at the ends of syllables. Across languages, it appears that absolute

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