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Not completely predictable at first glance: patterns follow trends within languages and across languages. Bases of the similarity of these trends: human mind, vocal tract. Patterns are learned: humans recognize patterns and can reproduce them in novel situations: some patterns are lexically defined, some are phonologically determined. Etymological meaning: the way of voice; the law of sound, etc. A cognitive science to figure out how human mind stores, processes and produces sounds and sound patterns. Evidence for how the mind works is inferential/indirect it is unobservable. Phonologists: uncover how the human mind works to process sound by observing patterns in language, formulate theories and models which account for the patterns, test theories across languages. Breton plurals pout poudew pot ko f ko vew body Some languages do not show voiced consonants at the end of words; they must be voiceless. Hypothesis: voiced obstruents at the end of words is not desirable.
