Phonetics, part III: Suprasegmentals - Basesproduced.com

Another Basic Distinction • Consonants and vowels together make up the class ofsegments in phonetics.• Each segment is a configuration of articulations…• ordered in time in an utterance.• Languages also have phonetic features which can spanacross multiple segments.• = suprasegmental features• supra = “above” the segment.• One basic example:• Languages organize strings of segments intosyllables.