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单词 accentuality
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accentualityn.

Brit. /əkˌsɛn(t)ʃʊˈalᵻti/, /akˌsɛn(t)ʃʊˈalᵻti/, U.S. /ækˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈwælədi/, /əkˌsɛn(t)ʃəˈwælədi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: accentual adj., -ity suffix.
Etymology: < accentual adj. + -ity suffix.
1. In plural. Particulars or characteristics of accent or stress. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > accent
accentc1475
accentualities1825
1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. Jan. 98 With an insight into the accentualities and punctualities of modern Saxon.
1978 D. Sudnow Ways of Hand 139 This beat becoming the ways of the arms and shoulders, its stable accentualities and de-accentualities of cyclical thrusting afforded an increasingly fluid in-course prospectivity molding in my articulational moves.
2. The quality or fact of being accentual.
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1892 Poet-lore 4 381 The comparatively incapable ears of those autocrats of prosody, misled by the old-school notions that the fixed quantity of classical verse was possible to the fluid accentuality of English, and that verse-music consists in mere uniformity of percussion.
1952 Speculum 27 253 An analysis of the semeiography of Jam dulcis amica venito affords revealing insights into the status of Latin pronunciation in the tenth century; the poem is a definite testimony to the prevalence of greater accentuality.
1985 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 115 146 In the parameter of accentuality represented by Figure 1, pitch is more accentual in Greek than in standard Japanese.
1998 M. Delville Amer. Prose Poem i. i. 66 Jakobson also argues that ambiguity essentially arises from the contrapuntal tension created between two different ‘rhythms’, that of metric accentuality and that of the language of everyday life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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