0 relating to a speech feature, such as stress or pitch, that affects more than one speech sound: --
Suprasegmental features can be used to signal grammatical differences.
In addition, we acknowledge that the present study focused only on the relation of musicianship to learning a specific nonnative suprasegmental phonological contrast.
The second suprasegmental area in which differences among the three word classes may be found is lexical stress.
The third phonological criterion will be called the suprasegmental one.
However, much of this work deals with suprasegmental phenomena such as tone and intonation.
On a priori grounds, the segmental and suprasegmental levels would not be expected to differ much in their propensity for right-branching.
The suprasegmental criterion is appreciably more propitious to left-branching than the other two phonological ones.
The suprasegmental phonology section covers syllable structure, stress and tone, including intonational phonology.
The inclusion of tasks beyond word recitation naturally involves suprasegmental features as well as lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic fluency.
