word accent in a sentence
Examples
- Note that merely having different " meanings " is not sufficient grounds to split a grapheme into several characters : Thus, the acute accent may represent word accent in Welsh or Swedish, it may express vowel quality in French, and it may express vowel length in Hungarian, Icelandic or Irish.
- The historical origin of st�d is a matter of debate, but it is systematically related to the word accents of Swedish and Norwegian : It has been proposed that original Old Norse monosyllables ( not counting the definite article ) received the st�d, while words of two or more syllables did not.
- Modern Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian have two tonal word accent ), while in Danish the difference is the presence or absence of " st�d ", a glottal gesture considered a kind of creaky voice that seems to have been documented by Swedish sources as early as the 16th century.
- These are described as " tonal word accents " by Scandinavian linguists, because there is a set number of tone patterns for polysyllabic words ( in this case, two ) that is independent of the number of syllables in the word; in more prototypical pitch-accent languages, the number of possible tone patterns is not set but increases in proportion to the number of syllables.
- As it could also be demonstrated by Van Kampen that melodic peaks often coincide with the word accent ( see also ), the conclusion seems warranted that the Gregorian melodies enhance the expressiveness of the Latin words by mimicking to some extent both the accentuation of the sacred words ( pitch differences between neumes ) and the relative duration of the word syllables ( by paying attention to well-defined length differences between the individual notes of a neume ).
- Christopher R . Weingarten of " Clash " stated, " His ear for a great melody underpinning caustic wordplay remains in flashes, but it s consistently overwhelmed by too many formulaic arrangements leaning on hooks from female vocalists . " Legacy " is a rudimentary rant balanced by a sweet contribution from Polina . " Craig Jenkins of Pitchfork Media said, " " Legacy " pulls all manner of cockamamie pronunciation gymnastics just so Eminem can end every line with the same rhyming syllables, and the song s decision to dispense with proper word accents and splay sentences haphazardly across the middle of lines makes for a flow that comes across overwrought and labored even as it plays Frankenstein with conventional word choice and rhyme patterns ."