Phonotactic constraints in English prevent the occurrence of the consonant clusters(sr) and (dl) at the beginning of words.
Word origin
[1955–60; phono- + tactic]This word is first recorded in the period 1955–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: backgrounder, cassette, geodesic dome, opioid, rollout
Examples of 'phonotactic' in a sentence
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Here, we ask which structural features of the song critically determine the phonotactic performance.
Gundula Meckenhäuser, R. Matthias Hennig, Martin P. Nawrot 2013, 'Critical Song Features for Auditory Pattern Recognition in Crickets', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0055349. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The present paper describes a new automated dating method, based on phonotactic diversity.
Taraka Rama 2013, 'Phonotactic Diversity Predicts the Time Depth of the World's Language Families', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0063238. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Consequently, phonotactic constraints, which pertain to meaningless units, would constitute no independent knowledge base either.
Riitta Välimaa-Blum 2009, 'Phonotactic constraints in cognitive phonology', Corelahttp://journals.openedition.org/corela/137. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, phonotactic frequency had an impact before, but not during lexical-semantic processing.
Susana Silva, Marina Vigário, Barbara Leone Fernandez, Rita Jerónimo, Kai Alter, KaiAlter, Sónia Frota 2019, 'The Sense of Sounds: Brain Responses to Phonotactic Frequency, Phonological Grammarand Lexical Meaning', Frontiers in Psychologyhttps://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00681/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Realisational, phonotactic and semantic differences are also found.
Marina Vigário, Sónia Frota 2003, 'The intonation of Standard and Northern European Portuguese: A comparative intonationalphonology approach', Journal of Portuguese Linguisticshttp://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/31. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Participants did not develop a preference for either phonotactic structure in the test items.
Frans Adriaans, René Kager 2017, 'Learning novel phonotactics from exposure to continuous speech', Laboratory Phonologyhttp://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/20. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
To do so effectively requires taking whatever phonological and phonotactic liberties are needed.
Nahyun Kwon 2018, 'Iconicity correlated with vowel harmony in Korean ideophones', Laboratory Phonologyhttps://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/53. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We discuss the implications of our results for computational models of phonotactic learning.
Tal Linzen, Gillian Gallagher 2017, 'Rapid generalization in phonotactic learning', Laboratory Phonologyhttps://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/44. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Each language has a unique set of phonemic categories and phonotactic rules which determine permissible sound sequences in that language.
Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai, Yasuyo eMinagawa-Kawai, Alejandrina eCristia, Bria eLong,Inga eVendelin, Yoko eHakuno, Michel eDutat, Luca eFilippin, Dominique eCabrol, EmmanueleDupoux 2013, 'Inights on NIRS sensitivity from a cross-linguistic study on the emergence of phonologicalgrammar', Frontiers in Psychologyhttp://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00170/full. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This possibility was tested in a statistical phonotactic learning experiment in which phonological and semantic properties of word-types varied.
Peter Richtsmeier 2016, 'Phonological and Semantic Cues to Learning from Word-Types', Laboratory Phonologyhttp://www.journal-labphon.org/articles/39. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)