Bisegmental

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Consisting of two segments. not-comparable

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

Etymology

From bi- + segmental.

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