monosegmental

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English

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Etymology

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From mono- +‎ segmental.

Adjective

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monosegmental (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of a single segment
    • 1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 205:
      The phonological evidence is also equivocal: some fact suggest that affricatives are monosegmental, whereas other facts suggest that they are bisegmental.
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