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metatony Linguistics.|mɛˈtætənɪ|
Also metatonie.
[ad. F. métatonie (F. de Saussure 1894, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris VIII. 429), f. meta- + tone n. + -y3.]
In Baltic and Slavonic languages, one of certain kinds of substitution of one distinctive intonation for another in a given syllable; these substitutions collectively. Hence metaˈtonic a.
1936Trans. Philol. Soc. 17 The long monophthongs, which have now a rising intonation, are abnormal. Except in loan words, they are due to various obscure causes, known collectively as metatonie. Ibid. 29 But metatonie in the Slavonic period (i.e. nowocyrkumfleksowa) may be present in some of these cases. 1949Entwistle & Morison Russian & Slavonic Languages iv. 74 The process by which acutes change to circumflexes and vice versa is known as metatony. 1957C. S. Stang Slavonic Accentuation 21 Thus neo-acute does not arise as a result of metatony, if by this term is implied a change of intonation within one and the same stressed syllable. Ibid. 23 An assumption based on the behaviour of metatonic circumflex. 1960W. K. Matthews Russ. Hist. Gram. ii. 42 The Russian form voróna..illustrates a shift of stress forward in the word, which is known as progressive metatony and is the outcome here of the greater energy of the acute accent as compared with that of the circumflex. Ibid. vi. 99 The modern instances of metatony or shift of stress..have parallels in the fourteenth century. 1965G. Y. Shevelov Prehist. of Slavic xxxiii. 532 He [sc. Rozwadowski] called [the] whole phenomenon of their rise and all the changes associated with it metatony... The original idea of metatony as a pitch mutation resulting in the appearance of the two new intonations was a typical product of the Neogrammarian approach. Ibid. 533 Metatonic changes are most marked in those Sl[avic] languages or dialects which preserve distinctive (phonemic) pitch. 1973T. Mathiassen in A. Ziedonis et al. Baltic Lit. & Linguistics 165, I am inclined to assume for such cases..only the working of metatony, which involves merely a shift of intonation from circumflex to acute. |