Phonology

Phonology is a layer above Phonetics, which deals with what the units of speech are.

A segment is a basic unit of sounds. For example:

• Phonemes are segments of a word
• A words is a segment of a statement or a poetic line
• A line is a segment in a stanza
• A sentence is a segment in a paragraph

Suprasegmentals involve the parts of speech that are related to the combination of segments.

For example:

• Spaces
• Stress
• Pitch
• Timing
• Rhythm
• Prosody