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单词 pitch accent
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pitch accent
pitch accent n. Phonetics (a) a prominence or emphasis given to a word or syllable by its difference in pitch from its immediate surroundings; (b) = tone n. 6a (rare).
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tone1679
pitch accent1873
1873 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 473 Probably the Latin began early to substitute stress for its old inherited pitch accent, but this tendency was somewhat checked by the cultivation of Greek forms of metre.
1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Lat. 161 Under accent one understands variations of either intensity or intonation, and speaks of a stress accent or a pitch accent according as one or the other element is the more conspicuous.
1958 Word 14 149 To avoid unwarranted associations, it is better to speak of pitch accent and to leave the term stress to the domain of word stress.
2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 20 Sept. 68/1 The tribe's language, Carey realizes, ‘was in fact Indo-European but Indo-European filtered through a Chinese system of pitch-accents to the point where it sounded like nothing he knew’.
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