ALL meanings of suprasegmental
su·pra·seg·men·tal
S s - adjective suprasegmental above, beyond, or in addition to a segment. 1
- adjective suprasegmental Linguistics. pertaining to or noting features of speech, as stress, pitch, and length, that accompany individual consonants and vowels and may extend over more than one such segmental element; pertaining to junctural and prosodic features. 1
- noun suprasegmental a suprasegmental feature. 1
- adjective suprasegmental denoting those features of a sound or sequence of sounds that accompany rather than form part of the consecutive segments of a word or sentence, as for example stress and pitch in English 0