SINCE 1828
suprasegmental phoneme
nounDefinition of suprasegmental phoneme
: one of the phonemes (such as pitch, stress, juncture, nasalization, voice or voicelessness in clusters) of a language that occur simultaneously with a succession of segmental phonemes
— called also
prosodeme
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