| 单词 | tonic accent |
| 释义 | > as lemmastonic accent b. Pertaining or relating to tone or accent in speech; indicating the tone or accent of spoken words or syllables; characterized by distinctions of tone or accent. tonic accent (= French accent tonique), the stress-accent of a word. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation tonic1849 intoned1854 tonal1866 intonational1895 tonetic1922 1849 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 3 668 The influence of this habit of the tonic languages is still largely impressed on their Malay-Polynesian and Turonian descendants and congeners. 1859 S. W. Williams (title) A Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese language in the Canton dialect. 1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys 72 In their divine language, and with that ineffable tonic accent which no foreigner perfectly acquires. 1868 F. M. Müller Stratif. Lang. 42 The Thibetan is..tonic and monosyllabic. 1894 A. H. Keane in Church Mission. Intell. Oct. 723 Thus the monosyllable pa will be toned in six or more different ways to represent so many original dissyllables, pada, pake, pana, pasa, pata..and some of the Chinese and Shan dialects have..as many as ten or twelve such tones... Hence these languages are now called isolating and tonic rather than isolating and monosyllabic. 1896 A. H. Keane Ethnol. xii. 324 A far more important feature than the length of the words is their tonic utterance. < as lemmas |
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