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Meaning of "phonotactic" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PHONOTACTIC

ˌfəʊnəˈtæktɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHONOTACTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phonotactic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PHONOTACTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Phonotactics

Phonotactics is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters, and vowel sequences by means of phonotactical constraints. Phonotactic constraints are highly language specific. For example, in Japanese, consonant clusters like /st/ do not occur. Similarly, the sounds /kn/ and /ɡn/ are not permitted at the beginning of a word in Modern English but are in German and Dutch, and were permitted in Old and Middle English. In contrast, in some Slavic languages /l/ and /r/ are used as vowels. Syllables have the following internal segmental structure: ▪ Onset ▪ Rime: ▪ Nucleus ▪ Coda Both onset and coda may be empty, forming a vowel-only syllable, or alternatively, the nucleus can be occupied by a syllabic consonant. Phonotactics is known to affect second language vocabulary acquisition.

Definition of phonotactic in the English dictionary

The definition of phonotactic in the dictionary is of or relating to phonotactics.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHONOTACTIC

aerotactic · asyntactic · atactic · chemotactic · geotactic · heliotactic · heterotactic · hydrotactic · hypotactic · isotactic · paratactic · phototactic · phyllotactic · rheotactic · stereotactic · syndiotactic · syntactic · tactic · thermotactic · thigmotactic

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHONOTACTIC

phonological · phonologically · phonologies · phonologist · phonology · phonometer · phonometric · phonometrical · phonon · phonophobia · phonophore · phonopore · phonoscope · phonotactics · phonotype · phonotyper · phonotypic · phonotypical · phonotypist · phonotypy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHONOTACTIC

anaphylactic · anticlimactic · arctic · ataractic · autodidactic · chiropractic · climactic · delaying tactic · didactic · emphractic · extragalactic · galactic · intergalactic · lactic · malolactic · nondidactic · parallactic · phylactic · practic · prophylactic · undidactic

Synonyms and antonyms of phonotactic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phonotactic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHONOTACTIC

Find out the translation of phonotactic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of phonotactic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «phonotactic» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

音韵
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

fonotáctica
570 millions of speakers
en

English

phonotactic
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

phonotactic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

phonotactic
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

phonotactic
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

fonotáticas
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

phonotactic
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

phonotactique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Phonotactic
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

phonotaktische
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

音素配列
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

phonotactic
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Phonotactic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phonotactic
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

phonotactic
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

ध्वन्यात्मक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

phonotactic
70 millions of speakers
it

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phonotactic
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

phonotactic
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

phonotactic
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

phonotactic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φωνοτακτική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

phonotactic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phonotactic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

phonotactic
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHONOTACTIC»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHONOTACTIC»

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Production, Perception and Emergent Phonotactic Patterns: A ...
This volume is a signal contribution to the study of children's literature and its relation to racism and social conditions.
Alexei Kochetov, 2002
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From Perceptual Learning to Speech Production: Generalizing ...
Phonotactics are the restrictions on sound sequences within a word or syllable.
Peter T. Richtsmeier, 2008
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Change in the Adult Phonological Processing System by ...
CHAPTER 2 LEARNABILITY EXPERIMENTS The six experiments presented in this chapter investigate if the adult phonological processing system can learn artificial non-adjacent phonotactic constraints from brief perception and production ...
Hahn Koo, 2007
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Inductive Learning of Phonotactic Patterns
This dissertation demonstrates that significant classes of phonotactic patterns---patterns found over contiguous sounds, patterns found over non-contiguous segments (i.e. long distance agreement), and stress patterns---belong to small ...
Jeffrey Nicholas Heinz, 2007
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Production, Perception, and Phonotactic Patterns: A Case of ...
5.4.1. Specific. and. general. phonotactic. constraints. In this section I show that environments in which the plain/palatalized contrast is maintained or neutralized can be described as rather general, or coarse-grained. Recall that in our ...
Alexei Kochetov, 2013
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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Languages have phonotactic constraints – restrictions on the types of sounds that are allowed to occur next to each other or in particular positions in the word. In English, for example, no word begins with the sequence [tl]. There are words like  ...
Ralph W. Fasold, Jeff Connor-Linton, 2006
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Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar
3.1.2.5 Sensitivity to Phonetic and Phonotactic Features Across languages words differ in their phonetic and phonotactic characteristics. The English sound /0/ as in thermal is not found in Dutch, and the Dutch consonant that begins the word ...
Maria Teresa Guasti, 2004
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Input-based Phonological Acquisition
Analyses Recall that the prediction was that children would be more accurate at producing codas in high phonotactic probability non-words than in low phonotactic probability non-words. The first analyses examined children's accurate coda ...
Tania Zamuner, 2004
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Morphologie / Morphology. 1. Halbband
1. Introduction 2. Phonotactic constraints and their problems 3. Phonotactic constraints: phonology or morphology? 4. Morphologically relevant phonological information 5. The interplay between phonology and morphology 6. References 1 .
Geert E. Booij, Christian Lehmann, Joachim Mugdan, 2000
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Theoretical Issues in Korean Linguistics
H.-S. Sohn (1987a, b) focuses on introducing some phonotactic constraints that hold between glides and vowels (as she terms it, between two nucleus segments ). Her observations can be summarized as in (21): (21) Phonotactic Constraints ...
Young-Key Kim-Renaud, 1994

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHONOTACTIC»

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Why do we pronounce February without the "r"?
Sparing you the phonetic and phonotactic details, that amounts to a 'y' sound in English, yielding 'Febyuary', which may not have a 'w' in it as a ... «The Independent, Feb 15»
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Survival of the fittest: Linguistic evolution in practice
The study, "Grammars leak: Modeling how phonotactic generalizations interact within the grammar," to be published in the December 2011 ... «EurekAlert, Dec 11»
3
Cracking a Skype call using phonemes
These phoneme patterns are then mapped to most likely words, a technique they call "Phonotactic Reconstruction". PhonemeMethod. «iProgrammer, May 11»
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Phonotactic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phonotactic>. May 2024 ».
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