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suprasegmental

suprasegmental

adj. in linguistics, denoting the phonological features of speech that extend over a series of segments rather than forming individual phonemes. In English, the principal suprasegmental features are tone (pitch), stress, and juncture. Also called prosodic. See also paralanguage; prosody.

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