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phonotactics, n. pl. (const. as sing.) Linguistics.|fəʊnəʊˈtæktɪks|
[f. phono- + tactics.]
That part of phonology which comprises or deals with the rules governing the possible phoneme sequences in a language. So phonoˈtactic, phonoˈtactical adjs.; phonoˈtactically adv.
1956E. Haugen in M. Halle et al. For Roman Jakobson 216 The key to our understanding of the syllable lies in the development of phonotactics, or the study of phonemic distribution. 1958[see morphotactics n. pl.]. 1958A. A. Hill Introd. Linguistic Struct. viii. 116 Such a form reaches the maximum sequence which is pronounceable without breaking English phonotactic sequences. 1962E. F. Haden et al. Resonance-Theory for Linguistics iii. 24 Phonotactics..deals with the order of phonic entities. The field of phonotactics is phonemes-in-sequence. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. ii. 23 A restatement of the rules in which there is a clean break between phonotactic and allophonic rules will require a longer description. 1965W. Winter Evidence for Laryngeals 210 We do not yet know enough about the phonotactics of Proto-Tocharian to rule out the possibility that..*ssk and *tsk were reduced to sk and tk. 1967D. Steible Conc. Handbk. Linguistics 96 Phonotactical description defines the phoneme classes which occur in a language. 1970Language XLVI. 211 Young Binis..pronounce the word epich, deliberately violating Bini phonotactic rules (which forbid closed syllables). 1972Ibid. XLVIII. 465 Prenasalized stops are found in many languages, and are not usually subject to such stringent phonotactical restrictions; in Albanian, for example, they occur both initially and as first members of clusters. 1973D. Rockey Phonetic Lexicon ii. 28 Tests for phoneme recognition should be designed with the aim of determining whether the patient has grasped the phonotactic rules of the language, that is, whether he knows the phonemes and their combinations. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 108 Monosyllabic nonsense forms, phonotactically Russian. 1975Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XX. i. 61 Portuguese phonotactics generally does not tolerate word-final stops. 1976Ibid. XXI. i. 38 Many of the morphological rules which are proposed by linguists, whether morphophonemic or phonotactic in presumed character, are posited primarily, if not solely, in order to capture certain kinds of supposed ‘lexical redundancies’. 1977Ibid. XXII. i. 45 R2 and R3 are phonotactically motivated P-rules; they ‘conspire’ to prevent occurrences of ss-sequences on the surface. |