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.
- Right Reverend
- right-sided
- right side tool
- rights issue
- rightsize
- right smart
- rights of man
- right sphere
- right stuff
- right-thinker
- right-thinking
- right to choose
- right-to-die
- right-to-know
- right-to-left
- right-to-life
- right-to-lifer
- right-to-work
- right triangle
- right turn
- right-turning
- rightward
- rightwards
- rightward welding
- right whale