0 present participle of segment
1 to divide something into different parts:
The market is segmented by price into three general categories.
These provide natural cues for segmenting the speech flow from its very onset.
To make sure that the child perceived the items correctly, he or she was asked to repeat each nonword before segmenting it into phonemes.
While this strategy may be helpful in recognizing individual words, segmenting of reduced forms such as contractions is even more complicated.
Each blending and segmenting test consisted of five subtasks that examined four different phonological units: syllable, onset-rime, body-coda, and phoneme.
There has recently been increased interest in segmenting such information streams into topics.
Reading instruction emphasizes the learning of syllables, chunking or segmenting, and blending.
An attempt to clarify the form by segmenting it and by introducing spatial symmetries helps to introduce order into this work.
We first introduce a way of segmenting a single musical tone into five components that are conceptually distinct from a control standpoint.