suprasegmental

Speech parts

1. suprasegmental - Noun

2. suprasegmental - Adjective

3. suprasegmental - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound

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Examples

Estonian and some Sami languages have three phonemic lengths: short, geminate, and long geminate, although the distinction between the geminate and overlong geminate includes suprasegmental features. Source: Internet

They may take diacritics that indicate what kind of voice quality an utterance has, and may be used to extract a suprasegmental feature that occurs on all susceptible segments in a stretch of IPA. Source: Internet

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