Definition of Tonic accent

1. Noun. Emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness.

Exact synonyms: Pitch Accent
Generic synonyms: Accent, Emphasis, Stress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tonic Accent

tonguelets
tonguelike
tonguely
tongues
tonguester
tonguesters
tongueworm
tongueworms
tonguey
tonguing
tonguing and grooving plane
tonguings
tonguy
tonic
tonic-clonic seizure
tonic accent (current term)
tonic contraction
tonic control
tonic convulsion
tonic epilepsy
tonic key
tonic pupil
tonic reflex
tonic seizure
tonic solfa
tonic spasm
tonic water
tonic waters
tonical
tonically

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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