Barytonesis

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In phonology, barytonesis, or recessive accent, is the shift of accent from the last or following syllable on 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. The opposite, the accent shift to the last syllable is called oxytonesis.

References

  • Literary Dictionary
  • The system of nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and proto-Indo-European By A. M. Lubotsky Page 51 ISBN 90-04-08835-0 (1988)
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