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autosegmental

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
au-toseg-men-tal
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to autosegments.

adj

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.

Etymology

From autosegment + -al.

Word Breakdown

Questions

What does autosegmental mean?
Of or pertaining to autosegments.
Where does autosegmental come from?
From autosegment + -al.

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