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Phonological hierarchy

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The phonological hierarchy (from larger to smaller units) is as follows:

  1. Utterance
  2. Intonational phrase (I-phrase)
  3. Phonological phrase (P-phrase)
  4. Clitic group
  5. P-word (ω) (prosodic or phonological word)
  6. Foot (F)
  7. Syllable (σ)
  8. Mora (μ) ("half-syllable")
  9. Segment (phoneme)
  10. Feature

The hierarchy from the mora upwards is also called the prosodic hierarchy.

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