Phonological hierarchy
In phonology, the phonological hierarchy describes a series of increasingly smaller regions of an utterance. From larger to smaller units, it is as follows:
- Utterance
- Intonational phrase (I-phrase)
- Phonological phrase (P-phrase)
- Clitic group
- P-word (ω) (prosodic or phonological word)
- Foot (F)
- Syllable (σ)
- Mora (μ) (“half-syllable”)
- Segment (phoneme)
- Feature
The hierarchy from the mora upwards is also called the prosodic hierarchy.
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