For most spoken languages, the boundaries between lexical units are difficult to identify; phonotactics are one answer to this issue.
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From a decompositional perspective, in many cases, phonotactics play a part in letting speakers know where to draw word boundaries.
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These have the advantage that nearly all are pronounceable, that is, they fit the phonotactics of any language that uses German.
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The phonotactics of Eskayan, on the other hand, are quite different from those of Boholano-Visayan and Philippine languages generally.
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The main one is of the sounding of the core words, which, however, have the same phonotactics in both languages.
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Changes in phonotactics, which was never laid out explicitly by Zamenhof, have been introduced along with new vocabulary and especially foreign names.
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Words in Interlingua retain their original form from the source language; they are altered as little as possible to fit Interlingua's phonotactics.
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The number of diphones depends on the phonotactics of the language : for example, Spanish has about 800 diphones, and German about 2500.
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The languages of the Pacific Northwest are notable for their complex phonotactics ( for example, some languages have words that lack vowels entirely ).
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With over a century of use, Esperanto has developed a phonological norm, including accepted details of phonetics, phonotactics, and allophonic variation.
