phonotactic

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æktɪk

Adjective

phonotactic (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, phonology) Pertaining to phonotactics.

   Synonym: phonotactical

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5:

     So, we all have intuitions about possible and impossible stress patterns in sentences. 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[.]

   • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 146:

     The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y[.]

2. Pertaining to phonotaxis.

Derived terms

• phonotactically