bisegmental

English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ segmental.

Adjective

bisegmental (not comparable)

1. Consisting of two segments.
   • 1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 405:

     The phonological evidence is also equivocal: some fact suggest that affricatives are monosegmental, whereas other facts suggest that they are bisegmental.