单词 | short accent, mark |
释义 | > as lemmasshort †accent, mark 13. Phonetics and Prosody. Applied to a vowel (less frequently to a consonant) when its utterance has the less of the two measures of duration recognized in the ordinary classification of speech-sounds. Also, in Prosody, of a syllable: Belonging to that one of the two classes which is supposed to be distinguished from the other by occupying a shorter time in utterance. short †accent, mark: the mark ˘ placed over a vowel letter to indicate short quantity. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > long or short shortc1000 longOE society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhythm > [adjective] > quantitative > short shortc1000 society > communication > writing > written character > [noun] > written character not a letter > diacritic > types of prickOE tittlec1384 acute accent1555 windabout1589 cerilla1591 cedilla1599 acute1609 circumflex1609 grave1609 diaeresis1611 dialysis1665 dot1693 short accent, mark1704 long mark1729 síneadh fada1768 macron1851 macrotone1880 tilde1915 umlaut1938 fada1981 ogonek1981 c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) ix. 32 Seo forme geendung is on scortne a. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 184 I toke non hede nouþer of schort nor long, But to þe trouþe, and lefte coryouste Boþe of makyng and of metre be. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie To Rdr. sig. *.5v The last sillable saue one is short. 1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Kiij Abone the heid of the shorte fute, I haue put this mark ˘. c1620 A. Hume Of Orthogr. Britan Tongue (1870) i. ii. §17 If this argument reached as wel to i short as i lang. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Short-Accent, in Grammar, shews that the time of Pronounciation ought to be short, and is marked thus ˘. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 252 Vowels with the marks of Short and Long over them. 1827 J. Tate in J. W. Donaldson Buckham's Theatre of Greeks (ed. 2) 443 Which do not permit the short vowel precedent to form a short syllable. 1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 138 The short u continues to represent the Gothic u. 1861 F. A. Paley in tr. Aeschylus Seven against Thebes in Trag. (ed. 2) 488 The vowel is properly long, but made short by position. 1952 A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. iv. 75 The so-called ‘Short’ or ‘Checked’ Vowels. 1962 A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. 24 We shall..refer later to the ‘long’ vowels of English such as those of bean and barn, as compared with the ‘short’ vowel in bin. But, in making such statements, we shall not be referring to absolute duration values. < as lemmas |
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