see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given...

Look up stress or stressy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stress may refer to: Stress (biology), an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental...

Circumflex Perispomenon, properispomenon Grave accent Barytone Rhyme Stress (linguistics) Syllable Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. par. 166, 167. v t e...

F. (1969), review of Abercrombie (1967), Journal of Linguistics 5, 153–164 Dauer, R. (1983) Stress-timing and syllable-timing reanalyzed, Journal of Phonetics...

Welsh and Polish, stress is always on the penult. Acute accent Oxytone Paroxytone Proparoxytone Ultima (linguistics) Stress (linguistics) Welsh Archived...

In linguistics, a paroxytone (Greek: παροξύτονος, paroxýtonos) is a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable...

In linguistics, a proparoxytone (Greek: προπαροξύτονος, proparoxýtonos) is a word with stress on the antepenultimate (third last) syllable, such as the...

English words with one syllable Minor syllable Mora (linguistics) Phonology Pitch accent Stress (linguistics) Syllabary writing system Syllabic consonant Syllabification...

theory of stress rules" (Document). PhD Thesis, MIT, Distributed by Indiana University Linguistics Club. Hayes, Bruce (1995). Metrical Stress Theory: Principles...

unicameral consonant letter Saltillo (linguistics) (Ꞌ or ꞌ), a glottal stop consonant, ʔ Spiritus lenis (᾿) Stress (linguistics) (ˈ), relative emphasis or prominence...

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...

Stress in Spanish is functional: to change the placement of stress changes the meaning of a sentence or phrase: for example, célebre ('famous'), celebre...

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...

really greater than the other syllables in the word are. Stress (linguistics) Tone (linguistics) The corresponding terms for Rhinelandic tone accents are...

In linguistics, an oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation needed]) is a word with the stress on the...

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⟩...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked...

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...

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...

and 'sing-/ing 'by / her-'self; 'Stop here /or 'gent-/ly 'pass. Stress (linguistics) St. Edward's University: "Archived copy". Archived from the original...

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...

In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...

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...

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...

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...

linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time. Principal concerns of historical linguistics include:...

[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme (/ˈfoʊniːm/) is any set of similar...

guide to linguistics: Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics can be theoretical...

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...

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...