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In this paper I sketch several phenomena that illustrate graphotactic constraints, i.e., restrictions on the ways in which the elements of a writing system may combine with each other. I will consider here three different kinds of units: letters, punctuation marks, and graphemic constituents of letters. First, whole letters.
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McCawley, J.D. (1994). Some Graphotactic Constraints. In: Watt, W.C. (eds) Writing Systems and Cognition. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8285-8_7
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