单词 | oxytonic |
释义 | oxytonicadj. Characterized by an oxytone or oxytones; designating a language in which the majority of words are oxytones. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > pitch accent > oxytone oxytonous1796 oxytone1840 oxytonical1875 oxytonic1878 1878 Johnson's New Universal Cycl. 451/2 In the following lines of Collins we may mark the first as oxytonic..and the second as paroxytonic. 1893 Mod. Lang. Notes 8 208/1 French and Provençal words have become oxytonic and paroxytonic, while Spanish and Italian retain the proparoxytones of the Latin. 1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 156 Oxytonic language, a language in which the majority of the words bear the main accent on the last syllable. 1963 Amer. Speech 38 217 Armenian, like French, is oxytonic; with rare exceptions, the stress in a word falls on the last syllable. 1985 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 30 70 When full or partial prominence is given to non-final syllables, the oxytonic model is contradicted also at the word level. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1878 |
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