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bisegmental

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English

Etymology

From bi- +‎ segmental.

Adjective

bisegmental (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of two segments.
    • 1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 405:
      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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