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Default Re: A Few Questions on Linguistics

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What is suprasegmental domain? Does it refer to stress, intonation, pause..etc?
A suprasegmental is a vocal effect that extends over more than one sound segment in an utterance, such as pitch, stress, tone, vowel length, nasalization, and aspiration.

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Try this very handy source:

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/Gloss...erms/Index.htm
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