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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

suprasegmentally en · ADV

Etymology

From suprasegmental + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a suprasegmental manner.
    • Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality. 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10: