#phonotactics

Oi! Hey there! ^.^ Hope you're doing well and thanks for the kind words!

Unfortunately I've been out of the academic loop since 2016 and I only remember a handful of resources, most of which aren't inexpert audience friendly(?).

The resource that pops to mind, regardless, is WALS Online - The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. It's a cross-linguistic feature comparison tool. It allows you to generate and investigate global maps based upon a single linguistic feature or multiple features simultaneously. I think it's a cool shortcut because it checks plausibility (for people who might not know interrelatability) on whether a language might have a combination of features. It helps visualize patterns across languages, language families, and regions.

For instance, since we're talking phonotactics, here's the map for syllable structure. Problem is WALS pulls no punches on jargon, and most of the sources it cites are, like, grammars you'd only find in print on a campus library.

On WALS, each language has a page where its features are listed. To learn the details of how the feature manifests, you'd have to use other sources. But WALS at least provides the relevant starting point of individual languages to investigate. Wikipedia ain't... always accurate or comprehensive, of course, in something like linguistics... but it's an easy way to start poking once you know the names of languages you want to snoop at.

You could try your luck with the currently-defunct World Phonotactics Website on the Wayback Machine, though that's not one I know much about, and there is the whole, uh, defunct thing going for it.

I'm sorry I can't be more help!

Nophhurra, and greetings! This post is a short follow-up to the previous one where I discuss some changes and determinations made in Movelang's syllable structure. After toying around with some base lexical material and words that I've coined, I now am much more confident about how the language's syllable structure looks.

In the introductory phonology post, I intentionally left the phonotactics a bit vague, because at the time when I had initially codified the structure in my notes, I was more unsure of how syllables should look, whereas in the time since, I've been able to coin a handful of starter words and become much more certain about how syllables in Movelang look and behave. Since then it's only been a matter of reckoning the actual behavior in my notes, based on the words and common affixes I've begun coining and using.

As you can see, the structure has changed a tad bit to say the least, with this updated shape reflecting the shape common to all the syllables in my current initial set of words. Any syllable may begin with no consonant at all, any single onset consonant, or an allowed consonant cluster of a plosive + fricative, or plosive + liquid. Phonemic null onset also applies word-internally, and consequently, hiatus is also allowed phonemically. Syllables also have a few rules concerning what consonants may end a syllable, if one is present. Word-internally, any consonant may end a syllable, except for /j/, but word-finally, only a handful of consonants may end the final syllable, these being /m t k q s ɾ/. The one exception to the word-internal rule, is when there is a geminate consonant used as a simultaneous coda and onset, in which case, any consonant many end the syllable, as it also counts as the onset of the following syllable.

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