linguistics

(Wow it's been a while since I've made a blog entry. @_@; I have to get back into it. :}) If we imagine this as a very simplified process of coming up with things to say: [think it]->[decide whether to say it]->[say it] The mechanisms each by themselves are fascinating. Thinking of something...

For those not familiar with the term, phonotactics is the linguistic phenomenon which controls which structures of words are acceptable. Let's make up two words. Clestrath and Pkan. Try to pronounce them. Assuming you're an English monoglot, you probably found the first far easier to say than...