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phonological hierarchy

phonological hierarchy noun: a series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance, each nested within the next highest region.

Noun

phonological hierarchy (plural phonological hierarchies)

  1. A series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance, each nested within the next highest region.

Forms of phonological hierarchy

pluralphonological hierarchies

Questions about phonological hierarchy

What does phonological hierarchy mean?
Phonological hierarchy means a series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance, each nested within the next highest region.
What part of speech is phonological hierarchy?
Phonological hierarchy is a noun.
What is the plural of phonological hierarchy?
The plural of phonological hierarchy is phonological hierarchies.

Words near phonological hierarchy in the dictionary

  1. phonologer
  2. phonologers
  3. phonologic
  4. phonological
  5. phonological hierarchies
  6. phonological hierarchy
  7. phonological phrase
  8. phonological phrases
  9. phonological word
  10. phonological words
  11. phonologically

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