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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Syllable structure often interacts with stress or pitch accent. In Latin, for example, stress is regularly determined by syllable weight, a syllable counting...
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Mora (linguistics) (redirect from Trimoraic syllable)
(bimoraic); extra-long syllables with three moras (trimoraic) are relatively rare. Such metrics are also referred to as syllable weight. The term comes from...
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Macron (diacritic) (section Syllable weight)
(heavy) syllable. Even relatively recent classical Greek and Latin dictionaries are still concerned with indicating only the length (weight) of syllables; that...
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metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables in modern meters. The word comes...
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Stress (linguistics) (redirect from Stressed syllable)
Classical Arabic and Latin, where stress is conditioned by the weight of particular syllables. They are said to have a regular stress rule. Statements about...
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Latin phonology and orthography (section Syllable)
or the last syllable has been lost. To determine stress, syllable weight of the penult must be determined. To determine syllable weight, words must be...
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principles determine syllable weight. Assignment of syllable weight starts at the left edge of a word and proceeds left to right. 1. All syllables containing long...
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in Greek or Latin, a dactyl is a long syllable followed by two short syllables, as determined by syllable weight. The best-known use of dactylic verse...
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Lithuanian accentuation (section Syllable weight)
In the Lithuanian phonology, stressed heavy syllables are pronounced in one of two prosodically distinct ways. One way is known as the acute or falling...
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Munsee language (section Syllable weight)
Syllable weight plays a significant role in Munsee phonology, determining stress placement and the deletion of certain short vowels. All syllables containing...
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Ancient Greek phonology (section Syllable weight)
light syllables. Syllable weight is based on both consonants and vowels. Ancient Greek accent, by contrast, is only based on vowels. A syllable ending...
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and breve notation: – = stressed/long syllable, ◡ = unstressed/short syllable Accent (poetry) Syllable weight Baldick, Chris (2008). The Oxford Dictionary...
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different scheme known as quantitative metre, where patterns were based on syllable weight rather than stress. In the dactylic hexameters of Classical Latin and...
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derive the verse from a Greek model, in which syllable weight or the arrangement of light and heavy syllables was the governing principle. Scholars today...
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traditional hymn of anonymous authorship from the Jewish liturgy.) Syllable weight Iambic pentameter Andrews, Ethan Allen (1878). Grammar of the Latin...
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Open syllable lengthening, in linguistics, is the process by which short vowels become long in an open syllable. It occurs in many languages at a phonetic...
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syllable is svarita because the previous syllable is udātta. Vedic meter is independent of Vedic accent and exclusively determined by syllable weight...
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Powhatan language (section Syllable structure)
to determine the stressed syllable in words, more specifically the syncopation of weak vowels, /a/ and /e/. Syllable weight is determined based on whether...
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Keegan, John M. (2017-03-31), "Chapter 7. Syllables and syllable weight in Sara-Bagirmi languages", Syllable Weight in African Languages, Current Issues in...
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non-verbs), stress is mostly affected by phonological factors such as syllable weight, although morphology also plays a role, as different suffixes may affect...
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unstressed syllables with contrastive stress and vowel length. Modern theories have reinterpreted overlong vowels as having superheavy syllable weight (three...
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stress was mostly predictable, depending on syllable weight (that is, vowel length and whether a syllable ended in a consonant). Because spoken Israeli...
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prosody and syllable weight measured in terms of morae. He analyzes Danish as having two kinds of syllables, monomoraic and bimoraic syllables. Unstressed...
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in bold must be pronounced as ε ε to preserve the long—short—short syllable weight sequence of a dactyl. Thus, the scansion of the second line is thus:...
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Quenya (section Syllables and stress)
syllable weight. Words of two syllables are stressed on the first syllable. In words of three or more syllables, the stress is on the penultimate syllable if...
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out-of-the-blue), the syllable '-ci-' is the strongest or most stressed syllable in the phrase, but the syllable 'doc-' is more stressed than the syllable '-tors'....
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English word is on the second syllable, following Latin rules of accent, which require that a penult (next-to-last syllable) must be accented if it contains...
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system is characterized by free accent and distinctive quantity (i.e. syllable weight). The word prosody of Lithuanian is sometimes described as a restricted...
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Middle English phonology (redirect from Middle English open syllable lengthening)
single ones. This took place after open syllable lengthening; the syllable before a geminate was a closed syllable, hence vowels were not lengthened before...
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