• English-speaking countries, the Botanical Latin places syllable stress for botanical names derived from ancient Greek and Latin broadly according to two systems...
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  • first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical latin." Syllable stress of Botanical Latin (McNeill et al. 2012 & Article 39) (McNeill et al...
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  • the stress patterns of Latin words. A syllable is "light" if it ends in a single short vowel. For example, a, ca, sca, scra are all light syllables for...
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  • These forms in -ī are stressed on the same syllable as the nominative singular, sometimes in violation of the usual Latin stress rule. For example, the...
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    second-to-last syllable is long, that syllable will have stress. If the second-to-last syllable is not long, the syllable before that one will be stressed instead...
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    inherited all of the post-PIE diphthongs except for *eu, which became *ou. Proto-Italic and Old Latin had a stress accent on the first syllable of a word, and...
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    equal. Stressed syllables are pronounced longer, but unstressed syllables (syllables between stresses) are shortened. Vowels in unstressed syllables are...
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    Neo-Latin (sometimes called New Latin or Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first...
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  • stress is always on the same stem syllable. Mobile (premični), where the stress is on different stem syllables. Ending (končniški), where the stress is...
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  • Hungarian orthography (category Latin-script orthographies)
    pronounced in three syllables like au-gusz-tus, but the syllable-counting rule (above) should consider it as a word of four syllables. Another problematic...
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  • stating that the stress in nesia is on the antepenultimate syllable (thus analysed as nE-si-a, not *nE-sia). A classification of parts of speech relevant...
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    Ojibwe writing systems (category Latin alphabets)
    organized into syllables. It was primarily used by speakers of Fox, Potawatomi, and Winnebago, but there is indirect evidence of use by speakers of Chippewa...
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    differently; in American English, the stress is on the "i", whereas in British English the stress is on the first syllable.[citation needed] The genus Candida...
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    Soqotri language (category Languages of Yemen)
    pronounced [ɨʲ] after emphatics (/tˤ sˤ ʃˤ ɮˤ kʼ lˠ/) in open syllables and [ɨ] in closed syllables (e.g. /ʕaˈlˠiti/ [ʕa'lˠɨʲti] "two teeth"/sˤiˈtˤoʕo/ [sˤɨʲˈtˤoʕo]...
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    Longer adjectives derived from Greek or Latin and most adjectives of three or more syllables typically mark degree of comparison with more and most (e.g....
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    is used for adverbial and adjectival sentences. Stress falls on the ultimate or penultimate syllable, which can be open (CV) or closed (CVC). Hieroglyphic...
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    Portuguese vocabulary (category Lists of loanwords of Germanic origin)
    as the change of word stress from the first to the penultimate syllable, the conversion of most [þ] into [t] or [d] and the conversion of [h] into [k]...
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    Bat (redirect from Social behavior of bats)
    buzzes, the former having "A" and "B" syllables. Bat songs are highly stereotypical but with variation in syllable number, phrase order, and phrase repetitions...
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    Morelos (redirect from State of Morelos)
    dancing. The lyrics of this type of corrido generally have eight syllables per line forming stanzas of five verses each. This type of corrido dates back...
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    Shetland (redirect from County of Zetland)
    and land ('land'). Another possibility is that the first syllable is derived from the name of an ancient Celtic tribe. In 43 CE, the Roman author Pomponius...
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    Anton Webern (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    Webern's "funny little explanations of the varying dynamics and flexibility of tempo"; "every syllable and every gesture of Webern was understood and lovingly...
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