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'''Phonological hierarchy''' describes a series of increasingly smaller regions of a [[Phonology|phonological]] utterance. From larger to smaller units, it is as follows:

#[[Utterance]] ([[υ]])

#Prosodic [[declination unit]] (DU) / intonational phrase (I-phrase) ([[ι]])

#Prosodic [[prosodic unit|intonation unit]] (IU) / phonological phrase (P-phrase)

#Prosodic list unit (LU)

#[[Clitic]] group

#[[Phonological word]] (P-word, [[ω]])

#[[Foot (linguistics)|Foot]] (F, [[φ]]): "strong-weak" syllable sequences such as English ''ladder, button, eat it''

#[[Syllable]] ([[Sigma|σ]]): e.g. ''cat'' (1), ''ladder'' (2)

#[[Mora (linguistics)|Mora]] ([[μ]]) ("half-syllable")