see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given...
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television series The Unit Stress (font), varying stroke widths of a font Stress (linguistics), relative emphasis or prominence given to a syllable in a word,...
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Isochrony (redirect from Stress timing)
the concept remains controversial in linguistics. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech. Isochrony refers...
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Paroxytone (redirect from Paroxytonic stress)
In linguistics, a paroxytone (Greek: παροξύτονος, paroxýtonos) is a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable...
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Proparoxytone (redirect from Proparoxytonic stress)
In linguistics, a proparoxytone (Greek: προπαροξύτονος, proparoxýtonos) is a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable, such as the...
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Circumflex Perispomenon, properispomenon Grave accent Barytone Rhyme Stress (linguistics) Syllable Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. par. 166, 167. v t e...
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Syllable (redirect from Final (linguistics))
English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant Syllabification...
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Oxytone (category Stress (linguistics))
In linguistics, an oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation needed]) is a word with the stress on the...
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unicameral consonant letter Saltillo (linguistics) (Ꞌ or ꞌ), a glottal stop consonant, ʔ Spiritus lenis (᾿) Stress (linguistics) (ˈ), relative emphasis or prominence...
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Welsh and Polish, stress is always on the penult. Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics) Stress (linguistics) Welsh Archived...
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Initial-stress derivation is a phonological process in English that moves stress to the first syllable of verbs when they are used as nouns or adjectives...
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Metrical phonology (category Stress (linguistics))
theory of stress rules" (Document). PhD Thesis, MIT, Distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club. Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical Stress Theory: Principles...
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...
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Pitch-accent language (redirect from Pitch-stress language)
really greater than the other syllables in the word are. Stress (linguistics) Tone (linguistics) The corresponding terms for Rhinelandic tone accents are...
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and 'sing-/ing 'by / her-'self; 'Stop here /or 'gent-/ly 'pass. Stress (linguistics) St. Edward's University: "Archived copy". Archived from the original...
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Vowel reduction (category Stress (linguistics))
dictionaries indicate full vowels by marking them for secondary stress even when they are not stressed, so that e.g. ⟨ˌɪ⟩ is a unstressed full vowel while ⟨ɪ⟩...
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Syllable weight (section Linguistics)
In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime. In classical...
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Secondary stress (or obsolete: secondary accent) is the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word, the stronger degree of stress being...
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In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...
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Stress in Spanish is functional: to change the placement of stress changes the meaning of a sentence or phrase: for example, célebre ('famous'), celebre...
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Dreimorengesetz (category Stress (linguistics))
Latin word, the penultimate rule: With few exceptions, Latin words are stressed on the penult (second-to-last syllable) if it is "heavy" (having a long...
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Barytonesis (category Stress (linguistics))
In phonology, barytonesis, or recessive accent, is the shift of accent from the last or following syllable to any non-final or preceding syllable of the...
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Comanche language (section Stress)
proclitics, do not affect the stress of a word, so that nʉ + námi 'my sister' retains its stress on the /a/ in námi. Secondary stress is placed on the second...
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Metatony (category Stress (linguistics))
In linguistics, metatony refers to the change of nature of accent (its intonation, or tone), usually within the same syllable. When the accent also changes...
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Word (redirect from Word (linguistics))
predict word boundaries from stress alone in languages with phonemic stress, there will be just one syllable with primary stress per word, which allows for...
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Phoneme (redirect from Neutralization (linguistics))
and vowel phonemes. Phonemes are primarily studied under the branch of linguistics known as phonology. The English words cell and set have the exact same...
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In linguistics, intonation is the variation in pitch used to indicate the speaker's attitudes and emotions, to highlight or focus an expression, to signal...
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pronounced the same. Heteronym pronunciation may vary in vowel realisation, in stress pattern, or in other ways. A heteronym is a homograph that is not a homophone...
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morae are important. Stress falls on the penultimate mora, though in words long enough to have two stresses, only the final stress is predictable. However...
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guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...
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