Barytonesis

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 stem, as in John Donne's poetic line: but éxtreme sense hath made them desperate, the Balto-Slavic Pedersen's law and Aeolic Greek barytonesis.^[1] The opposite, the accent shift to the last syllable is called oxytonesis.^[2]

References

^ Vijayakumar, Anand. Montano, Lina (ed.). "Recessive accent". Literary Dictionary. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via Answers.com.
^ Lubotsky, A. M. (1988). The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European. Brill Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 90-04-08835-0.

External links

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[1] Vijayakumar, Anand. Montano, Lina (ed.). "Recessive accent". Literary Dictionary. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via Answers.com.

[2] Lubotsky, A. M. (1988). The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European. Brill Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 90-04-08835-0.

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