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autosegmental

autosegmental adjective: of or pertaining to autosegments.

Adjective

autosegmental (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to autosegments.
  2. Of or pertaining to autosegmental phonology, a framework of phonological analysis that views phonological representations as consisting of parallel tiers of segments, rather than just one linear sequence of segments.

Origin of autosegmental

From autosegment + -al.

Questions about autosegmental

What does autosegmental mean?
Autosegmental means of or pertaining to autosegments.
What part of speech is autosegmental?
Autosegmental is an adjective.

Words near autosegmental in the dictionary

  1. autoscrolling
  2. autoscrolls
  3. autosear
  4. autosears
  5. autosegment
  6. autosegmental
  7. autosegmentation
  8. autosegmentations
  9. autosegmented
  10. autosegments
  11. autoselect

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