Back قانون تتابع الأصوات Arabic Fonotaktoniezh Breton Phonotaktik German Fonotakso Esperanto Fonotáctica Spanish واجآرایی (واجشناسی) Persian Fonotaksi Finnish Phonotaxe French פונוטקטיקה HE Fonotaktika Hungarian
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Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek phōnḗ 'voice, sound' and taktikós 'having to do with arranging')[1] is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes. Phonotactics defines permissible syllable structure, consonant clusters and vowel sequences by means of phonotactic constraints.
Phonotactic constraints are highly language-specific. For example, in Japanese, consonant clusters like /rv/ do not occur. Similarly, the clusters /kn/ and /ɡn/ are not permitted at the beginning of a word in Modern English but are permitted in German and were permitted in Old and Middle English.[2] In contrast, in some Slavic languages /l/ and /r/ are used alongside vowels as syllable nuclei.
Syllables have the following internal segmental structure:
Both onset and coda may be empty, forming a vowel-only syllable, or alternatively, the nucleus can be occupied by a syllabic consonant. Phonotactics is known to affect second language vocabulary acquisition.[3]
- ^ φωνή, τακτικός. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
- ^ Orzechowska, Paula; Wiese, Richard (2015-01-01). "Preferences and variation in word-initial phonotactics: A multi-dimensional evaluation of German and Polish". Folia Linguistica. 49 (2). doi:10.1515/flin-2015-0016. ISSN 0165-4004.
- ^ Laufer 1997.