Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Study of the sound and phoneme combinations allowed in a given language.
Every language has specific phonotactic rules that describe the way in which phonemes can be combined in different positions (initial, medial, and final). For example, in English the stop+fricative cluster /gz/ can only occur in medial (exhaust) or final (legs), but not in initial position, and /h/ can only occur before, never after, a vowel. The restrictions are partly language-specific and partly universal.
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