suprasegmental
suprasegmental — adjective
- suprasegmentalpositive
- more suprasegmentalcomparative
- most suprasegmentalsuperlative
1. describing those parts of spoken language that go beyond individual sounds — cov
describing those parts of spoken language that go beyond individual sounds — covering stress, pitch, intonation, and similar features that affect whole syllables, words, or sentences
Minho studied how suprasegmental features like stress can change word meaning in his linguistics class.
suprasegmental features + like stress, pitch, intonation
The recording helped students hear suprasegmental elements like pitch and rhythm in natural speech.
When Anthony practiced Mandarin tones, he learned an important suprasegmental feature of the language.
Suprasegmental phonology studies how stress and intonation work across whole sentences rather than single sounds.
- prosodic
nearly identical in meaning; 'prosodic' is slightly more common in phonetics and poetry studies, while 'suprasegmental' is the formal linguistics term
- segmental
describes individual speech sounds (vowels and consonants), the opposite level of analysis
文法句型
suprasegmental + noun
用法筆記
Suprasegmental is contrasted with segmental, which describes individual vowels and consonants. The term is almost always used in academic linguistics and phonetics contexts, not in everyday conversation.