bisegmental
English
Etymology
From bi- + segmental.
Adjective
bisegmental (not comparable)
- Consisting of two segments.
- 1999, Iggy Roca and 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.
- 1999, Iggy Roca and Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 405