- Source: Oxytone
In linguistics, an oxytone (; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding') is a word with the stress on the last syllable,: 118 such as the English words correct and reward.
It contrasts with a paroxytone, stressed on the penultimate (second-last) syllable, and a proparoxytone, stressed on the antepenultimate (third-last) syllable.
See also
Barytone
Paroxytone
Penult
Perispomenon
Proparoxytone
Properispomenon
Ultima (linguistics)
Stress (linguistics)
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Oxytone
- Paroxytone
- Ancient Greek accent
- Proparoxytone
- Penult
- Turkish language
- Syllable
- Goombah
- Portuguese orthography
- Uzbek language
