segmentalspecialized

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: phonology & phonetics
accommodation
alliterative
alveolar
apheresis
aphesis
assonance
diphthong
homonym
intrusive
labial
labialize
labiodental
postalveolar
postconsonantal
retroflex
retroflexion
rhotic
the International Phonetic Alphabet
unpronounceable
unrepeatable

Examples of suprasegmental

suprasegmental
The sentences had been low-pass filtered to preserve their suprasegmental aspects while removing most of their segmental content.
In particular, the hypotheses advanced to explain the earlier emergence of suprasegmental tones than segmental features point to areas of further research.
Such a structure has to form an underlying complex nucleus, overriding any rule-governed association of melodies with suprasegmental structure.
We now leave the suprasegmental domain and probe into possible differences among nouns, verbs, and adjectives at the segmental level.
They were given a brief explanation of phonological accent at the segmental and suprasegmental levels as well as a few examples.
Emerging integration of sequential and suprasegmental information in preverbal speech segmentation.
Yet these child learners' success did not extend to at least one suprasegmental (speech rate).
The inclusion of tasks beyond word recitation naturally involves suprasegmental features as well as lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic fluency.
The suprasegmental phonology section covers syllable structure, stress and tone, including intonational phonology.
The suprasegmental criterion is appreciably more propitious to left-branching than the other two phonological ones.
On a priori grounds, the segmental and suprasegmental levels would not be expected to differ much in their propensity for right-branching.
However, much of this work deals with suprasegmental phenomena such as tone and intonation.
The third phonological criterion will be called the suprasegmental one.
The second suprasegmental area in which differences among the three word classes may be found is lexical stress.
In addition, we acknowledge that the present study focused only on the relation of musicianship to learning a specific nonnative suprasegmental phonological contrast.
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