Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian.
Wiktionary
- n. A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.
Etymologies
- phono- + tactics, arrangement of linguistic units; see tactics. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Yep, you guessed it: I'm using the "phonotactics" excuse again.”
“Paleoglot: Aegean phonotactics against word-initial /j/”
“This is despite the fact that the “box” vowel is more faithful to the native pronunciation of these words, and completely compatible with English phonotactics.”
“Pronunciations that violate English phonotactics come off as even more pretentious.”
“All the names have been standardized to Old Etruscan phonotactics, so I write, for example, Pupuluna instead of the later variant Fufluna.”
“There's no question to me then that Etruscan phonotactics simply barred the glide from word-initial positions altogether.”
“Furthermore given all appearances, Linear A was most likely made for Minoan and the rules of the script would simply be too unnatural if Minoan did not have highly restricted phonotactics to begin with.”
“Of course, this is an oddly formed root judging by what I know about PIE phonotactics.”
“So, even for a language with such apparently simple phonology and phonotactics as Spanish, its mapping on to roughly equivalent sounds in English is not completely straightforward, even though it is a language that many English speakers think they can cope with easily.”
“However, when we come to proper names, the rules change: even within English-language names, the rules of phonotactics are stretched: Laing /leɪŋ/ is the only English word I know in which a diphthong is followed by a final velar nasal.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘phonotactics’.
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WF - Word Formation Words
Classes of words and types of word formation
sniglet, protologism, portmanteau word, blend, telescope-word, frankenword, double-entendre, compound, derivative, palindrome, spoonerism, malapropism and 152 more...
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dewORdie
Wordsmithing, linguistics, logic, and grammar
polyagglutination, morphosyntactic, textuality, tautology, synaloepha, logodaedaly, logogogue, largiloquent, sockdolager, phonotactics, asemic writing, philology and 5 more...
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Terms of Phonetics
Phonetic concepts that are fascinating or novel.
An open-ended list, so this can also include abstract or linguistic terms.tessaraphthong, samprasarana, great vowel shift, phonotactics, t-glottalization, hushing, bilabial, lexicostatistics, hachek, surd, ɲɟǃǃʎ, isogloss and 32 more...
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Neologistics
Basically this is a "words about words" list with a focus on neologism generation in all its various forms.
wordplay, paronomasia, madeupical, logodaedaly, onomatopoeic, verbification, nominalization, recontextualization, spoonerism, typo recycling, sloganeer, wordsmith and 59 more...
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addendumb's Words
fey, cockshut, redact, beatific, melange, arcanum, rarefied, dissemble, capitulation, detritus, ennui, anodyne and 381 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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Words that Katie likes.
integer, soliloquy, battlement, defenestrate, avocado, obsequiously, savagery, dactylonomy, ninja, banished, january, denominator and 13 more...
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Sciency things
Need to knows for my endeavors
retinotopic, tonotopic, somatotopic, somatotopy, diacritic, phonotactic, phonotactics, enucleate
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Linguistic
Tweets
Looking for tweets for phonotactics.
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