phonotactic
phonotactic adjective: pertaining to phonotactics.
Adjective
phonotactic (not comparable)
- Pertaining to phonotactics.
- 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...1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, pages 4–5
- The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y[.]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...
- Synonyms:
- phonotactical
- Pertaining to phonotaxis.
phonotactic meaning in Indonesian
phonotactic in Indonesian
- pertaining to phonotactics
- bertata bunyi, fonotaktis
Synonyms of phonotactic
Words formed from phonotactic
Words that rhyme with phonotactic
- galactic
- didactic
- prophylactic
- tactic
- lactic
- nongalactic
- syntactic
- backtick
- chiropractic
- factic
- graphotactic
- nonprophylactic
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Questions about phonotactic
- What does phonotactic mean?
- Phonotactic means pertaining to phonotactics.
- What is phonotactic in Indonesian?
- Phonotactic in Indonesian is bertata bunyi, fonotaktis. See Phonotactic meaning in Indonesian.
- What part of speech is phonotactic?
- Phonotactic is an adjective.
Words near phonotactic in the dictionary
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