释义 |
oxytonic, a.|ɒksɪˈtɒnɪk| Also oxyˈtonical. [f. oxytone a. and n. + -ic.] Characterized by an oxytone; designating a language in which the majority of words are oxytones.
1890Century Dict., Oxytonical. 1954Pei & Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 156 Oxytonic language, a language in which the majority of the words bear the main accent on the last syllable. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 217 Armenian, like French, is oxytonic; with rare exceptions, the stress in a word falls on the last syllable. 1972Hartmann & Stork Dict. Lang. & Linguistics 160/2 Oxytonic language, a language in which most words have fixed..stress on the final syllable. |