subsyllabic
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subsyllabic (comparative more subsyllabic, superlative most subsyllabic)
- (linguistics) Of, or related to parts or fractions of a syllable.
- 2002, Ludo Verhoeven, Carsten Elbro, Pieter Reitsma, editors, Precursors of Functional Literacy[1]:
- While we assume that phonological subsyllabic units are functional prior to reading skill, we have not ruled out a possible interaction with the writing system.