phonotactics

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Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.

Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́

Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.

English phono-

Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g-der.

Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō

Ancient Greek τάσσω (tássō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)

Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós)bor.

New Latin tacticabor.

English tactic

English tactics

English phonotactics

From phono- (“sound”) + tactics (“organization, arranging”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊnə(ʊ)ˌtaktɪks/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊnəˌtæktɪks/, /ˈfoʊnoʊˌtæktɪks/

Noun

phonotactics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics, phonology) A branch of phonology that deals with the restrictions a language applies to combinations of phonemes.

Related terms

• phonotactic
• phonotactically
• phonotax
• phonotaxis

Translations

branch of phonology

• Arabic: قَانُونُ تَتَابُعِ الْأَصْوَاتِ m (qānūnu tatābuʕi l-ʔaṣwāti)
• Dutch: fonotaxis (nl) f
• Esperanto: fonotakso
• Finnish: fonotaksi (fi)
• French: phonotactique (fr) f, phonotaxe (fr) f
• German: Phonotaktik (de) f, Phonotagmatik f, Phonosyntax f
• Hungarian: fonotaktika
• Japanese: 音素配列論 (おんそはいれつろん, onsohairetsuron)
• Macedonian: фонотактика f (fonotaktika)
• Polish: fonotaktyka f
• Portuguese: fonotática f
• Romanian: fonotactică f
• Russian: фо̀нота́ктика (ru) f (fònotáktika)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: фонота̀ктика f

  Latin: fonotàktika f

• Spanish: fonotaxis f, fonosintaxis (es) f, fonotáctica f
• Swedish: fonotax c
• Turkish: sesdizim, fonotaktik
• Vietnamese: kết âm học

See also

• orthotactics