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suprasegmental phonemes [so͞o΄prəseg ment′'l]n.phonemes or features of speech, as pitch, stress, and juncture, that may extend over and modify series of SEGMENTAL PHONEMES
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suprasegmental phonemes — [so͞o΄prəseg ment′ l] n. phonemes or features of speech, as pitch, stress, and juncture, that may extend over and modify series of SEGMENTAL PHONEMES … English World dictionary
suprasegmental phoneme — noun : one of the phonemes (as pitch, stress, juncture, nasalization, voice or voicelessness in clusters) of a language that occur simultaneously with a succession of segmental phonemes called also prosodeme … Useful english dictionary
Suprasegmental — Unité suprasegmentale En phonétique et phonologie les unités suprasegmentales (ou, parfois, prosodèmes) sont des unités discrètes qui ne font cependant pas directement partie de la chaîne phonologique segmentable. Cela revient à dire que ces… … Wikipédia en Français
segmental phonemes — n. phonemes consisting of sound segments; hence, the vowel, consonant, and semivowel sounds of a language: cf. SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES * * * … Universalium
segmental phonemes — n. phonemes consisting of sound segments; hence, the vowel, consonant, and semivowel sounds of a language: cf. SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONEMES … English World dictionary
Phoneme — This article is about the speech unit. For the JavaME library, see phoneME. In a language or dialect, a phoneme (from the Greek: φώνημα, phōnēma, a sound uttered ) is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts… … Wikipedia
phoneme — [fō′nēm΄] n. [Fr phonème < Gr phōnēma, a sound < phōnein, to sound < phōnē, a voice: see PHONO ] Linguis. a set of phonetically similar but slightly differing sounds in a language that are heard as the same sound by native speakers and… … English World dictionary
prosodic — adjective of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing (Freq. 1) • Pertains to noun: ↑prosody … Useful english dictionary
linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… … Universalium
phonetics — /feuh net iks, foh /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the science or study of speech sounds and their production, transmission, and reception, and their analysis, classification, and transcription. Cf. acoustic phonetics, articulatory phonetics,… … Universalium
