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Definition of Tonic accent
1. Noun. Emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonic Accent
Literary usage of Tonic accent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1881)
"A seventh, and even an eighth instance of the Italian tonic accent occupying the
... The French tonic accent, according to the appreciation of the immense ..."
2. The Spanish Verb: With an Introduction on Spanish Pronunciation by Peter Edward Traub, Edward Edgar Wood (1900)
"In the first case, a is prolonged at the expense of i, because bai gets the tonic
accent; whereas in the second case, since the tonic accent is not on bai, ..."
3. An Italian Grammar by Ruth Shepard Phelps (1917)
"tonic accent 9. The distribution of the tonic accent, or the question on which
syllable of a word to lay the stress, is one of the chief difficulties of ..."
4. A grammar of the Hebrew language by Samuel Lee (1832)
"On the tonic accent, 117. The tonic accent may be any one of those found in the
table (Art. 59.): and it will always be found either expressed, ..."
5. Perfect French Possible: Some Essential and Adequate Helps to French by Mary Henrietta Davis Knowles, Berthe Des Combes Favard (1910)
"The last syllable of every French word receives the tonic accent, except when
the word ends in e, in which case the syllable before the last receives the ..."
6. A Grammar of the Modern Spanish Language as Now Written and Spoken in the by William Ireland Knapp (1896)
"tonic accent. 45. Words ending in a consonant not inflectional, are regularly
accentuated on the ultimate, unless otherwise graphically indicated : — verdad ..."
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