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
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
...
3
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 ...
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 ...
5
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 ...
6
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, ...
7
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
8
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
9
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»