Phonotactic

Synonyms for "phonotactic" (1 found)

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Adjective(1 words)

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Translations

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Indonesian

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  • bertata bunyi adj (pertaining to phonotactics)
  • fonotaktis adj (pertaining to phonotactics)

Polish

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  • fonotaktyczny adj (pertaining to phonotactics)

Sample sentences

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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[.]

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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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