Suprasegmentalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ˌsuːp.ɹə.sɛɡˈmɛn.təl/

名詞

suprasegmental (plural suprasegmentals)

1. (phonetics) An effect on speech, such as length, stress, tone, and phonation type, that extends over more than one segment of sounds.

形容詞

suprasegmental (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a suprasegmental.
   • 1984, John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy (nonfiction), University of Hawaii Press, page 42:

     There are two kinds of phonemes in Chinese: segmental phonemes, which may be thought of as sequential sounds, and suprasegmental phonemes or tones, which in a sense are added to the syllable as a whole.

2. More than a segment.