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  1. Definition, Features, Examples, & Facts - Britannica

    Suprasegmental, in phonetics, a speech feature such as stress, tone, or word juncture that accompanies or is added over consonants and vowels; these features are not limited to single …

  2. Definition of Suprasegmental With Examples - ThoughtCo

    May 1, 2025 · Suprasegmental refers to sounds in speech that affect more than just single vowels or consonants. Suprasegmentals include features like pitch, duration, and loudness, adding a …

  3. What are Suprasegmentals? - Dr. Matthew Lynch

    Suprasegmentals are prosodic elements of speech that operate above the level of individual sound segments (consonants and vowels), extending across multiple sounds, syllables, …

  4. SUPRASEGMENTAL Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of SUPRASEGMENTAL is of or relating to significant features (such as stress, pitch, or juncture) that occur simultaneously with vowels and consonants in an utterance.

  5. 3.7 Suprasegmentals – Essentials of Linguistics

    In addition to segmental information about speech sounds, many languages make use of prosody or suprasegmental information. Suprasegmental information includes the pitch, loudness, and …

  6. SUPRASEGMENTAL definition | Cambridge English Dictionary

    SUPRASEGMENTAL meaning: 1. relating to a speech feature, such as stress or pitch, that affects more than one speech sound…. Learn more.

  7. Prosody (Suprasegmentals) - University of Oxford

    The IPA provides a group of symbols for stress, length, intonation, syllabification and tone under the general heading "suprasegmentals", reflecting a conceptual division of speech into …

  8. Segment (linguistics) - Wikipedia

    Other articulatory, visual or acoustic cues, such as prosody (tone, stress), and secondary articulations such as nasalization, may overlap multiple segments and cannot be discretely …

  9. Suprasegmentals - connectedspeechpathology.com

    Suprasegmentals are the features of speech that go beyond individual sounds, such as stress, intonation, pitch, and rhythm. These elements provide important cues about meaning, …

  10. 3.3 Stress and Suprasegmental Information – Essential of …

    In addition to segmental information about speech sounds, many languages make use of prosody or suprasegmental information. Suprasegmental information includes the pitch, loudness, and …