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prosodeme Linguistics.|ˈprɒsəʊdiːm|
[f. prosodic a. 2 + -eme: cf. F. prosodème.]
A prosodic feature with phonemic status; a suprasegmental phoneme. Hence prosoˈdemic a.
1940Language XVI. 249 The discussion of the vowel systems is thoroughly confused by the lack of separation between segmental and prosodic phonemes, so that one never knows whether, say, a long and a short vowel pair consists of two vowel phonemes or of a single vowel with two different prosodemes of quantity. 1945Ibid. XXI. 283 He says that there are two prosodemes of vowel quality. 1949Ibid. XXV. 282 Any significant sound feature whose overlap of other features is temporally correlated to syllabic contour should be called a prosodeme, and should be treated by itself in a manner appropriate to its special nature. 1955Archivum Linguisticum VII. ii. 134 The Polish accent..being separated from the end of the word which it indicates by its position, by the intervention of another prosodeme. 1964L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 85 The treatment is primarily at prosodemic level. 1971D. Crystal Linguistics iv. 184 Contrastive units in suprasegmental phonology were sometimes called prosodemes, or prosodic phonemes. |