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- Statements of permissible combinations of phonemes in a language
are known as its phonotactics.
- Such statements can be formulated as constraints on well-formedness
of phonological structures within the domain of declarative
phonology.
- Halle (1964) in a revision of a 1958 article discusses requirements
of a framework for characterising linguistic descriptions of speech,
in particular the requirement that in addition to describing the
observed data accurately, the representation provides "reasonable,
fruitful, insightful, and simple descriptions of the relevant facts"
(Halle, 1964:324).
- Chomsky (1964:30) introduces levels of adequacy
in linguistic description:
- observational adequacy
- descriptive adequacy
- explanatory adequacy
Dafydd Gibbon
Fri Nov 28 02:24:58 MET 1997