suprasegmentalspecialized

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Linguistics: phonology & phonetics

Examples of segmental

segmental
His contribution contains the most detailed phonetic analysis, taking into account not only prosodic features but segmental characteristics as well.
This also illustrates that segmental reductions should be investigated in context, not as an isolated phenomenon.
Considerably more of the variance could be explained when segmental error counts were included in the regression model.
We recently encountered two such cases, both with the segmental combination of mirror-imaged atrial arrangement, discordant atrioventricular connections, and double outlet right ventricle.
For the atrial segment, it is the arrangement of the appendages which determines this segmental topology.
The venous connections, atrial chambers, great arteries and segmental connections were normal.
Its segmental content is filled in by way of reduplication.
The sentences had been low-pass filtered to preserve their suprasegmental aspects while removing most of their segmental content.
The closer any such model gets to zero segmental redundancy, the less call there will be for adaptor mechanisms.
Complex onsets like these are compatible with segmental theories of laryngeal licensing, but not with ours, which prohibits aspiration and glottalisation in the same margin.
By using minimal-set data, we could study these contrasts while keeping segmental influences constant.
What is crucial about songs is the rhythmic and segmental characteristics of the vocal message, and this may make it primordial over early linguistic interaction.
Rather, they actively participate in the synchronous timing of movements, thereby anticipating the song's segmental units.
He found no transposition of consonants or vowels, and concluded : 'in the whistled language the absence of the segmental features gives opportunity for ambiguities'.
Most of the school-age children appeared able to organize their narratives at the segmental level provided the referential load was not too great.
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