pho·no·tac·tics (f  n -t k t ks)n. (used with a sing. verb) The set of allowed arrangements or sequences of speech sounds in a given language. A word beginning with the consonant cluster (zv), for example, violates the phonotactics of English, but not of Russian. [phono- + tactics, arrangement of linguistic units; see tactics.] |
phonotactics [ˈfəʊnəʊˌtæktɪks]
n
(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) (functioning as singular) Linguistics the study of the possible arrangement of the sounds of a language in the words of that language
[from phono- + -tactics, on the model of syntactic; see syntax]
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