suprasegmental
IPA: sˈuprʌsˈɛgmɛntʌɫ
noun
- (phonetics) An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
adjective
- Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
- More than a segment.
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Examples of "suprasegmental" in Sentences
- The 1993 version, however, had a more expanded suprasegmental section.
- Nasalization is suprasegmental moves from left to right through a word.
- The problems of suprasegmental phonol ogy will be left for another paper.
- A better model of speech timing could provide evidence as to what is actually being perceived when the timing patterns of an utterance are parsed to provide the perceptual cues to segmental and suprasegmental structures.