Phonotactics: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|The sounds allowed in a language (phonetics)}}{{more footnotes|date=April 2009}}

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'''Phonotactics''' (from [[Ancient Greek]] {{transl|grc|phōnḗ}} "voice, sound" and {{transl|grc|tacticós, also spelled/known as taktikós }} "having to do with arranging")<ref>{{LSJ|fwnh/|φωνή}}, {{LSJ|taktiko/s|τακτικός|ref}}</ref> is a branch of [[phonology]] that deals with restrictions in a [[language]] on the permissible combinations of [[phoneme]]s. Phonotactics defines permissible [[syllable]] structure, [[consonant cluster]]s and [[vowel]] sequences by means of ''phonotactic constraints''.