principle of locality
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.59 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The principle that an object is influenced directly only by its immediate surroundings; i.e. adhering to the limit of the speed of light.
noun
The principle that well-formedness of syllables can only be derived from syllable-internal information.
Example Sentences
- "One would expect to find nasal codas followed by any consonant class (stop, continuant, or sonorant), as is the case with liquid codas. If nasal-stop clusters are heterosyllabic, this restriction that the nasal be followed by a stop violates the principle of Locality."