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Meaning of "phonotactics" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PHONOTACTICS

From phono- + -tactics, on the model of syntactic.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PHONOTACTICS

phonotactics  [ˈfəʊnəʊˌtæktɪks] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHONOTACTICS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Phonotactics is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHONOTACTICS 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 phonotactics in the English dictionary

The definition of phonotactics in the dictionary is the study of the possible arrangement of the sounds of a language in the words of that language.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHONOTACTICS


aquatics
əˈkwætɪks
athletics
æθˈlɛtɪks
cosmetics
kɒzˈmetɪks
diagnostics
ˌdaɪəɡˈnɒstɪks
dialectics
ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪks
didactics
dɪˈdæktɪks
genetics
dʒɪˈnɛtɪks
gymnastics
dʒɪmˈnæstɪks
logistics
lɒˈdʒɪstɪks
mathematics
ˌmæθəˈmætɪks
optics
ˈɒptɪks
orthodontics
ˌɔːθəʊˈdɒntɪks
orthotics
ɔːˈθɒtɪks
politics
ˈpɒlɪtɪks
statics
ˈstætɪks
statistics
stəˈtɪstɪks
sticks
stɪks
synectics
sɪˈnɛktɪks
syntactics
sɪnˈtæktɪks
tactics
ˈtæktɪks

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHONOTACTICS

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

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHONOTACTICS

acoustics
aeronautics
aesthetics
antics
bioinformatics
bullying tactics
electromagnetics
informatics
kinetics
linguistics
office politics
pneumatics
scare tactics
semantics
shock tactics
smear tactics
steamroller tactics
telematics
therapeutics
wait-and-see tactics

Synonyms and antonyms of phonotactics in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «phonotactics» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHONOTACTICS

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

Translator English - Chinese

phonotactics
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fonotáctica
570 millions of speakers

English

phonotactics
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

phonotactics
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

phonotactics
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

phonotactics
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fonotática
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

phonotactics
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

phonotactique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Phonotactics
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Phonotaktik
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

音素配列論
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

phonotactics
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Phonotactics
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

âm học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

phonotactics
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फोनॅटॅक्टिक्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

phonotactics
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

phonotactics
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

phonotactics
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

phonotactics
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

phonotactics
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

phonotactics
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

phono tactics
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

phonotactics
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

phonotactics
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of phonotactics

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHONOTACTICS»

The term «phonotactics» is used very little and occupies the 152.725 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHONOTACTICS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «phonotactics» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «phonotactics» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about phonotactics

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHONOTACTICS»

Discover the use of phonotactics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to phonotactics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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French prosodics and phonotactics: an historical typology
French Prosodics and Phonotactics: An Historical Typology (Beihefte Zur Zeitschrift F R Romanische Philologie).
Jürgen Klausenburger, 1970
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Spanish/English Contrasts: A Course in Spanish Linguistics
1983, 43) as if the word boundaries of phonotactics did not exist: Las hijas iron en el auto thus becomes /la.s(.xa.si.ra.ne.ne.law.to/. Consequently, it is difficult to study the phonemic structure of words apart from the phonemic combinations of ...
Melvin Stanley Whitley, 2002
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The Linguistic Structure of Modern English
Chapter. 3. Phonology,. phonotactics,. and. suprasegmentals. 1. Phonemes 2. Phonemic rules 3. Phonological processes 4. Phonotactics 5. Suprasegmental features 6. Syllable structure Chapter preview This chapter begins with a discussion ...
Laurel J. Brinton, Donna Brinton, 2010
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Causes and Consequences of Word Structure
English speaking adults and infants use phonotactics to segment words from the speech stream. The goal of this chapter is to demonstrate that this strategy necessarily affects morphological processing. After briefly reviewing the evidence for ...
Jennifer Hay, 2003
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Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands
The network learned the phonotactics of Dutch monosyllables without any background knowledge, but only by observing words which were sequentially presented to the network - one phoneme at a time to the input layer with one phoneme ...
Ineke Schuurman, Frank Van Eynde, Ness Schelkens, 2000
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The Syllable in Optimality Theory
needed for many of the world's languages precisely where phonotactics are involved, then one alternative strategy is to consider the possibility that phonotactics are not syllable based. This is the strategy adopted here. Third, though native ...
Caroline Féry, Ruben van de Vijver, 2003
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English Phonology: An Introduction
6.5 The syllable template and phonotactics It is part of the phonological study of a language to address the question of how the phonemes of that language can be put together to make well-formed syllables and words: what consonant clusters ...
Heinz J. Giegerich, 1992
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Optimality Theory: Constraint Interaction in Generative Grammar
constraints. Most other research in this line has been derivational and in phonology has tended to use constraints only for surface- (or level-)79 unviolated conditions: phonotactics. The fact that these phonotactics are surface-true arises in ...
Alan Prince, Paul Smolensky, 2008
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The Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Child Language ...
The first is to claim that a strategy that ignores the constraints between phonotactics and the lexicon is simpler and works nearly as well. Relevant evidence could be garnered by implementing both strategies and testing their performance.
Eve V. Clark, 1995
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Spoken Word Access Processes
The numbers of stimuli per cell (and examples) for the high entropy items were: High density-high phonotactics, N = 25 (/baeb/); high density-low phonotactics, N — 15 (/fut/); low density-high phonotactics, n — 20 (/biv/); and low density-low ...
James M. McQueen, Anne Cutler, 2001

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHONOTACTICS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term phonotactics is used in the context of the following news items.
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Monthly etymology gleanings for February 2015
... groups do reasonably well. Phonotactics (the branch of phonetics dealing with the distribution of sounds) is full of such capricious rules. «OUPblog, Feb 15»
2
The clime's speech: Data analysis supports prediction that human …
Distribution of languages with complex tone (red dots) and without complex tone (blue dots) in the Phonotactics Database of the Australian ... «Phys.Org, Jan 15»
3
Why Do Hawaiians Say “Mele Kalikimaka” on Christmas?
It has nothing to do with palm trees and everything to do with phonotactics. Courtesy of Tom Scott. "Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say / On a ... «Slate Magazine, Dec 14»
4
Tunisia's Amazigh Identity: Deeply Embedded, Little Recognized
In contrast to Arabic phonotactics [rules about what sounds can be combined] solely relying on a consonant-vowel-consonant system, Tunisian ... «Tunisia Live, Mar 14»
5
Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John …
... requires meanings to exist) -- it has a phonology (a set of sounds or sound system) and phonotactics (a way of typically combining sounds), ... «YouTube, Sep 13»
6
Gestures improve language learning
In a within-subjects paradigm, participants first learned 32 abstract sentences from an artificial corpus conforming with Italian phonotactics. «Medical Xpress, Jan 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Phonotactics [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/phonotactics>. Apr 2024 ».
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