orthotactic

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adjective

Relating to orthotactics.

“An orthotactic rule of thumb that nearly any English-speaking schoolchild has heard is to put 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.”

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Meanings

adjectiveorthotactic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to orthotactics.

    An orthotactic rule of thumb that nearly any English-speaking schoolchild has heard is to put 'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.

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    Of course, pronounceability is closely tied to orthotactic regularity: letter strings that are orthotactically irregular will tend to be unpronounceable.

    2003, Jonathan Grainger et al., “Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal readers”, in Brain and Language, 87.3, page 433
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