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PHONOTACTICS - Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek phn "voice, sound" and tacticós "having to do with arranging") is a branch of phonology that deals with restriction...
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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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Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek phn "voice, sound" and tacticós "having to do with arranging") is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters and vowel sequences by means of phonotactic constraints. * Phonotactic constraints are highly language specific. For example, in Japanese, consonant clusters like /st/ do not occur. Similarly, the clusters /kn/ and /n/ are not permitted at the beginning of a word in Modern English but are in German and Dutch and were permitted in Old and Middle English. In contrast, in some Slavic languages /l/ and /r/ are used alongside vowels as syllable nuclei. * Syllables have the following internal segmental structure:* Onset (optional) * Rhyme (obligatory, comprises nucleus and coda): * Nucleus (obligatory) * Coda (optional)Both onset and coda may be empty, forming a vowel-only syllable, or alternatively, the nucleus can be occupi |