Melody tier

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In phonology, the melody tier is the part of a phonological representation which encodes the segmental contents of a specific phonological unit.

Example

In moraic theory, long vowels are often considered to be identical to their short counterparts as far as their segmental contents is concerned. Therefore they are represented identically at the melody tier but have different moraic content.

See also

mora

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics