Definition of Accentuality. Meaning of Accentuality. Synonyms of Accentuality

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Definition of Accentuality

Accentuality
Accentuality Ac*cen`tu*al"i*ty, n. The quality of being accentual.

Meaning of Accentuality 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...
- Welsh poetry, but from the middle of the 17th century a host of imported accentual metres from England became very po****r. By the 19th century the creation...
- opposed to stress-timed languages such as English, in which accentual verse and accentual-syllabic verse are more common. Many European languages have...
- as conservative Slavic languages like Serbo-Croatian, have a complex accentual system with short and long vowels in all syllables, a free pitch accent...
- free verse does not share. Sprung rhythm may be classed as a form of accentual verse, as it is stress-timed, rather than syllable-timed, and while sprung...
- 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...
- The Proto-Slavic accent is the accentual system of Proto-Slavic and is closely related to the accentual system of some Baltic languages (Lithuanian and...
- idea that regular accentual meter is critical to English poetry. Jeffers experimented with sprung rhythm as an alternative to accentual rhythm. In the Western...