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Meaning of "tonic accent" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TONIC ACCENT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONIC ACCENT

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tonic accent is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TONIC ACCENT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tonic accent

Accent (music)

In music, an accent is an emphasis placed on a particular note, either as a result of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Compared to surrounding notes: ▪ A dynamic accent or stress accent is an emphasis using louder sound, typically most pronounced on the attack of the sound. ▪ A tonic accent is an emphasis on notes by virtue of being higher in pitch as opposed to higher in volume. ▪ An agogic accent is an emphasis by virtue of being longer in duration. Accents which do not correspond to the stressed beats of the prevailing meter are said to be syncopated.

Definition of tonic accent in the English dictionary

The definition of tonic accent in the dictionary is emphasis imparted to a note by virtue of its having a higher pitch, rather than greater stress or long duration relative to other notes.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONIC ACCENT

tongued
tongueless
tonguelet
tonguelike
tonguester
tonguing
tonic
tonic sol-fa
tonic water
tonic wine
tonically
tonicity
tonier
Tonies
toniest
tonight
tonish
tonishly
tonishness
tonite

WORDS THAT END LIKE TONIC ACCENT

accent
acute accent
adjacent
adolescent
cent
crescent
decent
descent
fluorescent
innocent
magnificent
Oxford accent
per cent
pitch accent
primary accent
recent
Saint Vincent
scent
secondary accent
Vincent

Synonyms and antonyms of tonic accent in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tonic accent» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONIC ACCENT

Find out the translation of tonic accent to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tonic accent from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tonic accent» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

进补口音
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

acento tónico
570 millions of speakers

English

tonic accent
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टॉनिक लहजे
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لهجة منشط
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тоник акцент
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

acento tônico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

টনিক অ্যাকসেন্ট
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

accent tonique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aksen tonik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tonic Akzent
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

トニックアクセント
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

토닉 악센트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tonic accent
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bổ giọng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டானிக் உச்சரிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टॉनिक उच्चारण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Tonik vurgu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

accento tonico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tonik akcent
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тонік акцент
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

accent tonic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τονωτικό προφορά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

tonikum aksent
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tonic accent
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tonic aksent
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TONIC ACCENT»

The term «tonic accent» is barely ever used and occupies the 196.386 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TONIC ACCENT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tonic accent

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONIC ACCENT»

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A Reference Grammar of Spanish
(The tonic accent/stress on hombre falls on the o.) palabra aguda Denotes a word where the tonic accent falls on the last syllable. e.g. Correr lleva un acento agudo. (The tonic accent falls on the last syllable of correr.) palabra grave/llana ...
R. E. Batchelor, Miguel Ángel San José, 2010
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Carmen:
Thomas Grubb explains the difference between a "tonic accent" used in Italian, German or English and a French "stressed" syllable: In most languages with which the singer is concerned, one syllable in every word or word-group receives  ...
Mary Dibbern, 2000
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A Course of Spoken English
In a polysyllabic word, if more than one syllable stands out, only one of the prominent syllables normally receives the primary stress or tonic accent and the rest receives) secondary stress (See II.3). Similarly, if several syllables are prominent in ...
Asif Shuja
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Italian Grammar:
u v Trisyllabic Words made up of three syllables. Plurisyllabic Words made up of more than three syllables. Tonic accent The increased stress with which you pronounce Graphic The written form of the tonic accent. accent Tonic The syllable on ...
Michela De Iesu, 2014
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Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to ...
In another prose piece Hopkins offers a categorisation of the 'kinds of resemblance possible between syllables': (1) Musical pitch, to which belongs tonic accent (2) Length or time or quantity so called (3) Stress or emphatic accent; apotg and ...
Tom Jones, 2012
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Language History: An Introduction
The explanation (we know) is that at the time of the shortening, the tonic accent was sometimes on the same syllable that it is on in present-day English, and sometimes not. Specifically, at the crucial time the tonic accent of sanity, profundity, ...
Andrew L. Sihler, 2000
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Patterns in Play: A Model for Text Setting in the Early ...
Of the different types of accent, the most fundamental is tonic accent. As a principal articulator of syntactical groupings, it serves a "structural" function, by opposition to the "improvisatory" function of oratorical accents. This, of course, does not ...
Graeme MacDonald Boone, 1999
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Transactions of the Philological Society
In the course of his remarks on the tonic accent, Diez thus briefly states the principle which has been so ably investigated and illustrated by Gaston Paris,1 Bracbet,8 and others, in reference to the formation of the French language — " dieser ...
Philological Society (Great Britain), 1869
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The Thread of Discourse
Usually it is a tonic accent Generally such words show mutation of their accents to become atonic in phrase-initial or medial positions: (75) dhtama dwen, ni witdyiwm 'There is no one there* dhtama, ni kekwzss dyiwi 'There is nothing there ' ...
Joseph Evans Grimes, 1975
10
Speed Up Your Spanish: Strategies to Avoid Common Errors
(keep their tonic accent in the same place, no additional syllable in the plural) marroquí marroquíes (keep the tonic accent on the 'i' thus creating a broken diphthong in the plural) But: régimen regímenes, espécimen especímenes ( changes the ...
Javier Muñoz-Basols, Marianne David, Olga Núñez Piñeiro, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONIC ACCENT»

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Norma : The Essence of Melody
They also enable the line to land leisurely on the next long note, thus better projecting the following tonic accent. Bellini has therefore realized a successful ... «La Scena Musicale, Sep 05»

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« EDUCALINGO. Tonic accent [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tonic-accent>. May 2024 ».
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