10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SECONDARY ACCENT»
Discover the use of
secondary accent in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
secondary accent and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Secondary Accent in Modern English Verse: Chaucer to Dryden ...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Raymond Durbin Miller, 2010
2
A Theory of Stress and
Accent
accounted for in terms of a "primary accent" and a "secondary accent." The
distribution of the latter is limited in that it exists only if a noun has a primary
accent. Also, the position of the secondary accent is only allowed to the right of
the primary ...
3
A COURSE IN PHONETICS AND SPOKEN ENGLISH
In the word organization, therefore, the fourth syllable would be said to cany the
primary accent, and the first syllable the secondary accent. The remaining three
syllables would be grouped together and described as weak or unaccented.
J. SETHI, P. V. DHAMIJA, 1999
4
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the ...
But though ire may, or may not, use the secondary accent at pleasure, it is by no
means a matter of indifference on what syllable we ! it: this is fixed with as much
certainty as the place of the principal accent itseW ; and wrong position of one ...
John Walker, Thomas Tegg ((Londres)), 1827
5
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, ...
SECONDARY ACCENT. 522. 523. 524. The secondary accent is that stress we
may occasionally place upon another syllable, besides that which has the
principal accent, in order to pronounce every part of the word more distinctly,
forcibly, ...
John Walker, Townsend Young, 1859
6
A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language; on a ...
A list of the words in which the secondary accent is necessarily employed might
be given; but in a language so very copious as the Inglish this long labor would
answer no adequate end: the student would not be able to commit to memory
with ...
7
Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary: Corrected and ...
In order to give some idea of the nature of the secondary accent, let us suppose,
that, in giving our opinion of an astronomical argument, we say, " U u a direct
demonstration of the Copcmican system." In this sentence, as an accent is ...
Rev. John Davis (A.M., of Belfast, Eng.), 1830
8
A general critical grammar of the Inglish language, on a ...
A list of the words in which the secondary accent is necessarily employed might
be given ; but in a language so very copious as the Inglish this long labor would
answer no adequate end : the student would not be able to commit to memory ...
Samuel Oliver (jun.), 1825
9
A general critical grammar of the Inglish language: on a ...
A list of the words in which the secondary accent is necessarily employed might
be given ; but in a language so very copious as the Inglish this long labor would
answer no adequate end: the student would not be able to commit to memory
with ...
10
A HANDBOOK OF PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH WORDS: (WITH TWO ...
4.3 Primary and Secondary Accent While most words have only one accented
syllable, fairly long ones, or those containing certain prefixes (such as re
meaning 'again'), may have two. Thus the words examination, possibility, rewind,
and ...
J. SETHI, D. V. JINDAL, 1993
