Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/ˈfəʊnə(ʊ)taks/ · noun
(phonology, uncommon) The total sum of a language's phonological or phonotactic rules..
It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).
On the level of word-shape, the phonotax of a language is a first determinant of its style, but the pattern of distribution within that frame is perhaps of equal importance.
Finally, names more or less adapted to Greenlandic phonotax will show a few deviations from the declination paradigms: e.g. Suulut ought to become Suulutip in ergative like t-stems use, but will become Suulup.
Use phonotax when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Phonotax means (phonology, uncommon) The total sum of a language's phonological or phonotactic rules..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is crucial for the phoneme structure of Finnish — traditionally /d/ has not been included in the Finnish phonotax, but it fulfils the criteria of a phoneme (Karlsson, 1983: 66-7).
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.