| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| phonotactics |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pho·no·tac·tics |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f  n -t k t ks |
| NOUN: | (used with a sing. verb) 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | phono– + tactics, arrangement of linguistic units; see tactics.
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