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SUMMARY:Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Sc
 ots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope - Patrick Honeybone
  (University of Edinburgh)
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CONTACT:Onkar Singh
DESCRIPTION:This talk considers the interaction of phonotactics and diachr
 ony. I argue two things: (i) language-specific phonotactic constraints on 
 phonological forms can inhibit otherwise regular innovations\, and (ii) th
 e fact that such phonotactically-motivated process-inhibition occurs in hi
 storical phonology is itself evidence for the reality of phonotactic const
 raints. I consider two case studies where an understanding of phonotactics
  is necessary in order to make sense of the patterning of change: Mid-Scot
 s θ-debuccalisation and a late Middle English syncope. I ground the discu
 ssion in arguments about what phonotactic constraints are\, and how they c
 an be involved in diachrony.
LOCATION:Online
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