- junctural
- adjective Date: 1942 of or relating to phonetic juncture
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junctural
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junctural — juncturally, adv. /jungk cheuhr euhl/, adj. of or pertaining to phonological juncture. [1940 45; JUNCTURE + AL1] * * * … Universalium
junctural — junc·tur·al … English syllables
junctural — ˈjəŋ(k)chərəl, )sh(ə)rəl adjective : of or relating to juncture in speech * * * juncturally, adv. /jungk cheuhr euhl/, adj. of or pertaining to phonological juncture. [1940 45; JUNCTURE + AL1] … Useful english dictionary
pre-junctural — see pre B. 1 … Useful english dictionary
Juncture loss — (also known as junctural metanalysis, false splitting, misdivision, refactorization, or rebracketing) is the linguistic process by which two words (often an article and a noun) become partially or wholly affixed. Some examples would be if a… … Wikipedia
Rebracketing — For the process by which the elements of a word are given new meanings, see Folk etymology. Contents 1 Role in forming new words 2 Examples 3 … Wikipedia
juncture — /jungk cheuhr/, n. 1. a point of time, esp. one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out. 2. a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a… … Universalium
suprasegmental — /sooh preuh seg men tl/, adj. 1. above, beyond, or in addition to a segment. 2. Ling. pertaining to or noting features of speech, as stress, pitch, and length, that accompany individual consonants and vowels and may extend over more than one such … Universalium
chronological — [adj] in consecutive time order archival, chronographic, chronologic, chronometric, chronometrical, chronoscopic, classified, dated, historical, horological, horometrical, in due course, in due time, in order, in sequence, junctural, ordered,… … New thesaurus
junc|tur|al — «JUHNGK chuhr uhl», adjective. of or having to do with phonetic juncture: »Languages differ widely in their junctural habits as they do in other ways (Simeon Potter) … Useful english dictionary
