orthotactics

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Noun

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orthotactics (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The restrictions a language applies to the positions and patterns of graphemes in written words.
    • '1996, Sanford Steever, “Tamil writing”, in The World's Writing Systems, Oxford University Press, page 432:
      The name a chung is a late, secondary invention of probable non-Tibetan origin, and is therefore not found in the Tibetan texts on orthography and orthotactics []
    • 2009, Todd L. Richards et al, "fMRI activation differences between 11-year-old good and poor spellers' access in working memory to temporary and long-term orthographic representations", Journal of Neurolinguistics 22.4, page 329
      [] orthotactics defined as abstracting permissible and probable letter sequences, patterns, and positions in written words []
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