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nvestigated the implications of this information for the representation and processing of spoken language. Research on phonotactics in linguistics has examined the representations of various types of sequential constraints and segmental co-occurrence relations in syllables and words (Frisch, Broe, & Pierrehumbert, 1995; Greenberg, 1950; Harris, 1983; Kessler & Treiman, 1997; Lightner, 1965; Mayzner & Tresselt, 1962; 1965; Mayzner, Tresselt, & Wolin, 1965; Ringen, 1988; Zimmer, 1967). For example, analyses of adjacent phonetic segments in syllables in English have shown that there are stronger constraints on co-occurrences of vowels and final consonants than on co-occurrences of initial consonants and vowels (Fudge, 1969, 1987; Kessler & Treiman, 1997; see also Clements & Keyser, 1983, and Greenberg, 1950). Research on phonotactics in psycholinguistics has focused on the mental representation and processing of phonotactic information in children and adults. Jusczyk, Frederici, Wessels

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