phonotactics

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊnə(ʊ)ˌtaktɪks/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfoʊnəˌtæktɪks/, /ˈfoʊnoʊˌtæktɪks/

Noun

phonotactics (uncountable)

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

Related terms

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