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

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,...

the concept remains controversial in linguistics. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech. Isochrony refers...

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...

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

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

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

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...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

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...

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

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

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⟩...

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...

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...

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

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

pitch accent since they are reminiscent of stress accent languages, which typically allow one principal stressed syllable per word. However, there is debate...

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...