• different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin. Foreign accent syndrome usually results from...
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    Shtokavian (redirect from Ijekavian accent)
    subdivisions of Shtokavian are based on three principles: one is different accents whether the subdialect is Old-Shtokavian or Neo-Shtokavian, second is the...
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    accent from Accrington (Jeanette Winterson). Problems playing this file? See media help. Speech example An example of a male with a non-rhotic accent...
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    the accent into a stress accent (as in English) but preserved its position. As a result, the complexity of the mobile accent and the multiple accent patterns...
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  • the characteristics of their speech, such as their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses...
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    those speaking Standard German, can usually be easily identified by their accent, even by an untrained listener. Several of the dialects have been influenced...
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  • Dutch phonology (redirect from Dutch accent)
    standards: Northern and Belgian. Northern Standard Dutch is the most prestigious accent in the Netherlands. It is associated with high status, education and wealth...
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    polysyllabic words; Accent can never occur on the last syllable of polysyllabic words. There are no other rules for accent placement, thus the accent of every word...
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  • each word carries one of three accent marks: either the acute accent (ά), the grave accent (ὰ), or the circumflex accent (α̃ or α̑). These signs were originally...
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    Lexical Substratum in the Baku Dialect of Azerbaijani. Preliminary Notes". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 169 (2): 368 (note 4). doi:10...
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  • non-phonemic pitch accent. Certain morae are accented with higher pitch. High pitch begins on the second mora and ends on the accent peak. The accent peak falls...
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    is characterized by loss of pitch accent, tonemically high and lengthened accented syllables, lengthening of accented short syllables, and frequent development...
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    also found in all other High German dialects, and the characteristic pitch accent, which is exclusively shared with Ripuarian and Moselle Franconian. Until...
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  • Acute accent Latin spelling Fortson IV, Benjamin W. (2020). "An Overlooked Usage of Apices and I Longae? Notes on CIL VI 2080". Zeitschrift für Papyrologie...
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    script, with four diacritics appearing on vowels (circumflex accent, acute accent, grave accent, diaeresis) and the cedilla appearing in "ç". There are two...
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    comparison, Grimm's law, and Verner's law. Gothic used a stress accent rather than the pitch accent of Proto-Indo-European. This is indicated by the shortening...
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  • Dent. p. xxix; Windsor Lewis, Jack (1985). "British Non-Dialect Accents". Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik. 33 (3): 248. Archived from the...
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    Hiberno-English, Northern England English and Welsh English, though in the last three accent groups closer, [oː]-like realizations are also found. In RP, the open-mid...
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    "receive", lacvs > lago "lake", acvs > ago "needle", (only in the Tuscan accent and historical standard Italian) vīsus > viso /vizo/ "face". Preservation...
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  • fixed-accented paradigms, between the acuted "accent paradigm a", which retained the accent on the stem of the word, and the non-acuted "accent paradigm...
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    and valued on different planes. Two polar types stand out; with one, the accent is on the cult value; with the other, on the exhibition value of the work...
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  • standard accent of English as spoken in the south of England.", but it may also be spoken with other accents, and in other countries still other accents are...
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    London: Batsford. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-7134-11904. "Episode 113: A Zouthern Accent - The History of English Podcast". historyofenglishpodcast.com. 28 June...
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  • includes information missing in Old Prussian, e.g. due to lack of written accent marks in the latter.) Similarly to the Celtic situation, Old Lithuanian...
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    a grave accent (àa). The Inland Tlingit orthography does not use vowel digraphs. Instead, short high vowels are marked with an acute accent, long high...
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    had lost the PIE mobile pitch accent for a predictable stress accent, and had merged two of its vowels. The stress accent had already begun to cause the...
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    Proto-Germanic developed a strong stress accent on the first syllable of the root, but remnants of the original free PIE accent are visible due to Verner's Law...
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  • (inflection patterns) are more "irregular", exhibiting ablaut and mobile accent, while the thematic paradigms can be seen as a simplification or regularisation...
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  • which would be communicated in speech via qualities of rhythm, tone, pitch, accent, inflection, or intonation. According to most contemporary definitions,...
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    "Chronological Summary of the Development of the Sinhalese Language". Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung Auf Dem Gebiete Der Indogermanischen...
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