suprasegmental

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.
2. adjective Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
3. adjective More than a segment.

Similar words

united extrametricality macrosegment supradental intertonic subsegment interdental internal sandhi subpercept sublocale

Often followed by

features phonemes phonology aspects structure and feature information level phenomena