Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.
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- noun A branch of
phonology that deals with therestrictions alanguage applies tocombinations ofphonemes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Yep, you guessed it: I'm using the "phonotactics" excuse again.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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Yep, you guessed it: I'm using the "phonotactics" excuse again.
New "update page" for news on Etruscan Glossary Draft 001 2007
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There's no question to me then that Etruscan phonotactics simply barred the glide from word-initial positions altogether.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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This is despite the fact that the “box” vowel is more faithful to the native pronunciation of these words, and completely compatible with English phonotactics.
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All the names have been standardized to Old Etruscan phonotactics, so I write, for example, Pupuluna instead of the later variant Fufluna.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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There's no question to me then that Etruscan phonotactics simply barred the glide from word-initial positions altogether.
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Pronunciations that violate English phonotactics come off as even more pretentious.
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Paleoglot: Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/
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All the names have been standardized to Old Etruscan phonotactics, so I write, for example, Pupuluna instead of the later variant Fufluna.
Etruscan citynames 2010
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Furthermore given all appearances, Linear A was most likely made for Minoan and the rules of the script would simply be too unnatural if Minoan did not have highly restricted phonotactics to begin with.
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