phonotacticadj.
/ˌfəʊnə(ʊ)ˈtaktɪk/, U.S. /ˌfoʊnoʊˈtæktɪk/ Linguistics.
Of or relating to phonotactics.
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phonological1818
psychophonetic1906
Young-Grammarian1909
phonemic1921
Prague1934
tonological1934
phonematic1935
phonologic1936
morphophonological1938
Trubetzkoyan1940
Jonesian1951
Trager–Smith1951
phonetico-phonemic1952
Praguian1955
physiophonetic1956
Smith–Trager1957
phonotactic1958
Tragerian1961
trageremic1964
morphonological1966
autonomous1967
phonotactical1967
Praguean1968
1958 A. A. Hill Introd. Ling. Struct. viii. 116 Such a form reaches the maximum sequence which is pronounceable without breaking English phonotactic sequences.
1970 Language 46 211 Young Binis..pronounce the word epich, deliberately violating Bini phonotactic rules (which forbid closed syllables).
1973 D. Rockey Phonetic Lex. 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.
1997 Lang. in Society 3 467 There are a few Gaelic syntactic, segmental, and phonotactic features.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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