Trager discusses as prosodemes only the non-successive (suprasegmental) phenomena ‘of the word and the syllable as part of a word’, leaving out of consideration the intonations, which are the non-successive phenomena ‘affecting phrases and sentences’. It is important that these two be distinguished and treated separately. However, it should be clear that there are not merely two such types of suprasegmental phenomena, for a language may have as many such types as it has morphological levels.
- Harris (1942b), a pag.242