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phonotaxes

phonotaxes is the plural of phonotax.

Meaning of phonotax

Noun

phonotax (countable and uncountable, plural phonotaxes)

  1. (uncommon) The total sum of a language's phonological or phonotactic rules.
    • It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).1990, Jarmo Lainio, “Sweden Finnish — development or deterioration?”, in Durk Gorter, editor, Fourth International Conference on Minority Languages: Western and Eastern European papers, Multilingual...

Questions about phonotaxes

What is phonotaxes the plural of?
Phonotaxes is the plural of phonotax.

Words near phonotaxes in the dictionary

  1. phonotactically
  2. phonotactics
  3. phonotape
  4. phonotapes
  5. phonotax
  6. phonotaxes
  7. phonotaxic
  8. phonotaxis
  9. phonotelemeter
  10. phonotelemeters
  11. phonotephrite

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