Phonotactic

Synonyms for "phonotactic" (3 found)

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Closest matches (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Strong matches (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Related words (1)

Adjective(1 words)

Related word relations

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More general

3 entries
linguistic knowledgelinguistic rulelinguistic study

More specific

3 entries
phonotactic awarenessphonotactic constraintpseudoword task

Collocations

4 entries
phonotactic constraintsphonotactic patternsphonotactic probabilityphonotactic rules

Inflections

2 entries
more phonotacticmost phonotactic

Derivations

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Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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[.]

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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