Definition of Accentual. Meaning of Accentual. Synonyms of Accentual

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Definition of Accentual

Accentual
Accentual Ac*cen"tu*al, a. Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Meaning of Accentual from wikipedia

- Accentual verse has a fixed number of stresses per line regardless of the number of syllables that are present. It is common in languages that are stress-timed...
- Accentual-syllabic verse is an extension of accentual verse which fixes both the number of stresses and syllables within a line or stanza. Accentual-syllabic...
- "beautiful (f.)"). This terminology was adopted in the description of accentual-syllabic verse in English, where it refers to a foot comprising an unstressed...
- The meter was quantitative (but not borrowed from Gr****). The meter was accentual or based on accented and unaccented syllables. Despite the division, there...
- Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889,...
- proverbs of Publilius Syrus, and tragedies of Seneca the Younger. In the accentual-syllabic verse of English, German, and other languages, however, the iambic...
- following accentual type I can also shift to the next syllable. In these forms, accentual changes are the same as for verbs following accentual type II...
- is highly fusional and characterized by dual grammatical number. Two accentual norms (one characterized by pitch accent) are used. Its flexible word...
- The Latin rhythmic hexameter or accentual hexameter is a kind of Latin dactylic hexameter which arose in the Middle Ages alongside the metrical kind....
- distinction. This happened relatively late and not before some important accentual changes occurred, such as Fortunatov–de Saussure's law and Dybo's law...