phonological hierarchy

noun

A series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance, each nested within the next highest region.

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Meanings

nounphonological hierarchy (plural phonological hierarchies)

plural phonological hierarchies

  1. human sciencesA series of increasingly smaller regions of a phonological utterance, each nested within the next highest region.
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