Phonological vs Autosegmental - What's the difference?
phonological | autosegmental |
Of or relating to phonology.
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Of or pertaining to autosegments.
Of or pertaining to autosegmental phonology, a framework of phonological analysis that views phonological representations as consisting of parallel tiers of segments, rather than just one linear sequence of segments.
As adjectives the difference between phonological and autosegmental
is that phonological is of or relating to phonology while autosegmental is of or pertaining to autosegments.phonological
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Adjective
(-)- [...] Phonological' competence is also reflected in intuitions about '''phonological''' structure: any English speaker intuitively feels, for example, that the sequence 'black bird' can either be a single '''phonological''' word ('''BLACK'''bird, with primary stress on ''black'' = a species of bird, like thrush, robin, etc.), or two independent '''phonological''' words ('''BLACK BIRD''' or black ' BIRD = bird which is black, as opposed to 'white bird', 'yellow bird', etc.).