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Accidental gap

In linguistics, an accidental gap, also known as a gap, paradigm gap, accidental lexical gap, lexical gap, lacuna, or hole in the pattern, is a potential word, word sense, morpheme, or other form that does not exist in some language despite being theoretically permissible by the grammatical rules of that language. For example, a word pronounced /zeɪ̯k/…

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Phonological gaps

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Accidental gap

Nodes58
Edges57
Triples1
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.034483
Components1

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word words exist language gap example english rules accidental potential phonological gaps morphological allowed system sense also semantic paradigm meaning

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
sick or flickerinstance ofin English the consonant cluster /spr/ is allowed at the beginning of words such as spread or spring and the syllable rime /ɪk/ occurs in words0.80text

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