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In [[phonology]], the '''phonological hierarchy''' describes a series of increasingly smaller regions of an utterance. From larger to smaller units, it is as follows:

#[[Utterance]]

#Intonational phrase (I-phrase)

#Phonological phrase (P-phrase)

#[[Clitic]] group

#P-word ([[ω]]) (prosodic or phonological word)

#[[Foot (linguistics)|Foot]] (F)

#[[Syllable]] ([[σ]])

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

#Segment ([[phoneme]])

#Feature