Meaning of phonotactic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pertaining to phonotactics.
   not-comparable
2. Pertaining to phonotaxis.
   not-comparable

Examples

“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 possible, but non-occurring English word, whereas *bnick by contrast is not a possible native English word[.]”

“The term missy appears to be a Chinese Pidgin English term from English miss + the Cantonese phonotactic suffix -ee/-y[.]”

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