monosegmental

English

Etymology

From mono- +‎ segmental.

Adjective

monosegmental (not comparable)

1. Consisting of a single segment
   • 1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 205:

     The phonological evidence is also equivocal: some fact suggest that affricatives are monosegmental, whereas other facts suggest that they are bisegmental.

Related terms

• monosegment