Phonotactic calculator: exercises

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Phonotactic calculator exercises
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• history of English
• SLA
• syllabification in Italian and Polish
• Greek examples
• Scheers paper
• morphonotactics

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Greek initial clusters

• kt- (many regular words), no tk-
• kteáno I kill
• gd- (poetic by-forms of 2 cognate words), no dg-
• gdoupos heavy sound, a thud
• pt- (many words), no tp-
• pterón feather, ptólemos poetic for war
• bd- (a few), no db-
• bdállo I milk cows

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• mn- (a lot of words), no nm-
• mnema memorial
• also no kp- and pk-, gb- and bg-
• khthon earth, phthóngos sound
• tn-, tm-, pn-, km-
• but no pm- bm- bn- fn- gm-