adjacent segment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadjacentandsegment
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adjacent
adjective
uk/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/us/əˈdʒeɪ.sənt/
very near, next to, ...
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segment
noun[C]
uk/ˈseɡ.mənt/us/ˈseɡ.mənt/
one of the smaller groups or amounts that a larger group or amount can be ...
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(Definition ofadjacentandsegmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Sufficiently identicaladjacentsegmentavoidance thus needn't depend on assimilation per se, only on the potential for some independently motivated process to create adjacent identical segments.
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In contextual ones, the degree of similarity that a segment tolerates with anadjacentsegmentis dependent upon the quality and quantity of perceptual cues otherwise available to that segment.
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Assimilations to anadjacentsegmentare vastly more frequent than assimilations to a non-adjacent one.
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The option of the surgery is to maintain range of motion and attenuate the rate ofadjacentsegmentdisease advancement without fusion.
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In addition, spinal fusion itself, particularly if more than one spinal level is operated on, may result inadjacentsegmentdegeneration.
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Each iron or clay segment will have an enlargement (a bell) on one end to receive the end of theadjacentsegment.
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If a rival station manager owns anadjacentsegment, the player can take it over through force.
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Recasens hypothesises that articulatory regions not involved in vocalic constriction are relatively free to coarticulate with adjacent segments.
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Some types of consonant allophony are caused by overlap between the gestures associated with adjacent segments.
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The joint angle can then be expressed as relative rotations between two adjacent segments.
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It elaborates on the generalisation that consonants that are more similar to adjacent segments are more likely to delete than consonants that are more contrastive.
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It is impossible for adjacent segments to interact, because their (potential) transparency is eliminated.
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If syllable merger occurs because of segmental reduction or deletion conditioned by the phonetic features of the adjacent segments, it is a phonetic phenomenon.
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An important characteristic is that they allow to control the degree of continuity between two adjacent segments.
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This correlation receives a perceptual explanation : distinctness between adjacent segments is desirable because it enhances the perceptibility of the elements in the sequence.
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The idea that successive sounds should present a minimum amount of distinctness is not new, nor is the relation established between the desirability of distinctness between adjacent segments and perceptibility.
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Deletion targets segments that are characterised by a relatively low level of perceptibility, resulting in particular from reduced contrastiveness with adjacent segments.
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Most of these clitics can have three, four or even five different pronunciations, depending on whether they occur as proclitics or as enclitics and depending on the adjacent segments.
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