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monosegmental

monosegmental adjective: consisting of a single segment.

Adjective

monosegmental (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of a single segment
    • The phonological evidence is also equivocal: some fact suggest that affricatives are monosegmental, whereas other facts suggest that they are bisegmental.1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 205

Origin of monosegmental

From mono- + segmental.

Words formed from monosegmental

Questions about monosegmental

What does monosegmental mean?
Monosegmental means consisting of a single segment.
What part of speech is monosegmental?
Monosegmental is an adjective.

Words near monosegmental in the dictionary

  1. monoscriptal
  2. monose
  3. monosedation
  4. monosedative
  5. monosegment
  6. monosegmental
  7. monosegmentally
  8. monosegmentation
  9. monosegmented
  10. monosegments
  11. monoselective

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