prosodemen.

1939 Africa 12 370 The Hottentot tones are not modulations (i.e. prosodemes capable of characterizing a complete utterance).

1949 Language 25 282 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.

1955 Archivum Linguisticum 7 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.

1971 D. Crystal Linguistics iv. 184 Contrastive units in suprasegmental phonology were sometimes called prosodemes, or prosodic phonemes.

2005 Phonology 22 210 [These studies] all postulate an independent word-level stress prosodeme.

1946 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 12 245/2 Early Algonkian had more complex prosodemic structure than is maintained by any of the modern central dialects.

1964 L. S. Hultzén in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 85 The treatment is primarily at prosodemic level.

1980 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 101 509 The loss of prosodemic vocalic quantity, one of the most characteristic marks of Spoken Latin as distinguished from Written Latin.