Associations to the word «Segmental»

Wiktionary

SEGMENTAL, adjective. Of, relating to, or constructed from segments

Dictionary definition

SEGMENTAL, adjective. Divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds.
SEGMENTAL, adjective. Having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky