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单词 metatony
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metatonyn.

Brit. /mᵻˈtat(ə)ni/, /mᵻˈtatn̩i/, U.S. /məˈtætn̩i/, /məˈtædəni/
Forms: 1900s– metatonie, 1900s– metatony.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French métatonie.
Etymology: < French métatonie (F. de Saussure 1894, in Mém. de la Soc. de Linguistique de Paris 8 429) < méta- meta- prefix + -ton- (see tone n.) + -ie -y suffix3.
Linguistics.
In Baltic and Slavonic languages: change in syllabic intonation.
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metatony1936
1936 Trans. 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.
1949 W. J. Entwistle & W. A. Morison Russ. & Slavonic Langs. iv. 74 The process by which acutes change to circumflexes and vice versa is known as metatony.
1957 C. 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.
1965 G. 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.
1987 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 32 225 In the sections on prosodic phenomena..there is talk of..metatony.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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