pitch phoneme
Linguistics
noun
Each of a set of phonemes distinguished by different levels of pitch; (also) each of the recognized levels of pitch, especially a variation in pitch from one syllable to another which affects meaning.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), linguist.
- autosomal
- autosomal dominant
- autosomal recessive
- autosome
- autosoteric
- autosoterism
- autostabilisation
- autostabiliser
- autostabilization
- autostabilizer
- autostereogram
- autostereoscopic
- autostereoscopy
- auto-stop
- autostop
- autostrada
- autostylic
- autosuggest
- autosuggestibility
- autosuggestible
- autosuggestion
- autosuggestionist
- autosuggestive
- autoswitch
- autoswitching