Phonotactics Definition
fōnə-tăktĭks
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.
American Heritage
A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.
Wiktionary
Origin of Phonotactics
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phono– tactics arrangement of linguistic units tactics
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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