phonotactic

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -æktɪk

Adjective

phonotactic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to phonotactics.
  2. Pertaining to phonotaxis.
    • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 4–5:
      So, we all have intuitions about possible and impossible stress patterns in sen-
      tences. Moreover, we all have strong phonotactic intuitions – i.e. intuitions
      about what are possible and impossible sound sequences among native words
      in English. For instance, we'd probably all agree that blick is a possible, but
      non-occurring English word, whereas *bnick by contrast is not a possible
      native English word (an asterisk in front of a word, phrase, or sentence indi-
      cates that it is ill-formed in some way): such a word could only occur in
      English as a foreign borrowing. [...]

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