stressableadj.
/ˈstrɛsəbl/, U.S. /ˈstrɛsəb(ə)l/ Linguistics and Prosody.
Of a word, syllable, etc.: capable of being stressed. Cf. stressible adj.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > stressed > capable of being stressed
stressible1898
stressable1917
1917 R. T. Holbrook Living French i. xviii. 104 An arrangement which is general when the subject is a noun or (often) a stressable pronoun.
1964 W. S. Allen in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 6 In verse, as in the language, not every heavy syllable is stressed; it is only stressable.
2007 Language 83 436 Secondary stresses are almost always placed on one of the syllables that phonologists have marked as being secondarily stressable.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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