suprasegmental

[soo-pruh-seg-men-tl]

adjective

above, beyond, or in addition to a segment.

Linguistics. pertaining to or noting features of speech, as stress, pitch, and length, that accompany individual consonants and vowels and may extend over more than one such segmental element; pertaining to junctural and prosodic features.

noun

a suprasegmental feature.

Origin of suprasegmental

First recorded in 1940–45; supra- + segmental

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British Dictionary definitions for suprasegmental

suprasegmental

adjective

linguistics denoting those features of a sound or sequence of sounds that accompany rather than form part of the consecutive segments of a word or sentence, as for example stress and pitch in English

Derived Formssuprasegmentally, adverb

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