- Look up
oxytone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In linguistics, an
oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the
Ancient Gr****: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation...
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There are very few
minimal pairs for /ej/ and /ɛj/, all of
which occur in
oxytonic words. In
Greater Lisbon, however, it is
always pronounced [ɐj]. /ɛj/ ei...
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endings paroxytonic words must then be
accented to
differentiate them from
oxytonic words, as in amável, lápis, órgão.
Monosyllables are
typically not accented...
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unstressed particles, prepositions, and
other monosyllabic words, and any
oxytonic polysyllabic word. As an
example of the
first type, casa ('house') is pronounced...
- syllable. In
different paradigms, the
stress pattern was
varyingly barytonic,
oxytonic, and mobile.
Unstressed vowels lost one mora—long
vowels were shortened...
- [ˈtʂɨsta] or [ˈt͡ʂʂɨsta])
frequent usage of
initial syllable stress, also
oxytonic stress in
vocative case (as
opposed to
paroxytonic stress common in other...
- reconstructed: 1) a
system with
baritone accentuation (stress on the stem) and
oxytonic accentuation (stress on the endings), 2) a
system with
baritone accentuation...
