phonotactic
- adjective
- /ˌfoʊnəˈtæktɪk/
- Specialized
:
fonotáctico
- The rules of phonotactic patterns determine which sounds can be combined in a particular language.
- phonotactic probability
- phonotactic structure
- phonotactic patterns
Examples
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Words were chosen to be CVCV because this is a very frequent phonotactic sequence in Spanish.
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With respect to the phoneme z, the medial-position advantage was probably due to a phonotactic constraint.
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The Role of Phonotactic Probability for All Children
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In Figures 4 and 5, the means for each type of system and phonotactic structure simplification error are reported.
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Additionally, the dialects also have different patterns of phonotactic development.
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We did not have a measure of the precise phonotactic frequency of these nonwords in Spanish.
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There is a limited number of word-learning studies in which researchers address the main effect of phonotactic probability.
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Phonotactic structure errors discriminated between the three groups in a more significant way.
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The literature is mixed in terms of which types of tasks elicit phonotactic probability effects.
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Although they were discussing vocabulary, the same principle could apply, in theory, to using implicit statistical rules such as phonotactic probability.
Academic text (2013)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Phonotactic comes from phono- meaning 'sound', as in phonics, and tactic meaning 'arrange' or 'order', like the English word tactic. So phonotactic refers to the rules for how sounds can be arranged in a language, or which sound groups a language allows.
