单词 | unstress |
释义 | unstressn. Phonetics. Absence of stress; the pronunciation of a syllable, etc., without stress. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [noun] > accent > stress accent > lack of stress inaccentuation1867 stresslessness1881 unstressedness1894 unstress1945 1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 61 In this play aureate language..is exaggerated, almost to the point of burlesque, and is accompanied by anapaestic unstress, but not alliteration. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form iii. 30 In the case of phonemic oppositions, the most striking case of a contradiction between the criteria of freedom of distribution and frequency would be the opposition of stress and unstress. 1970 B. M. H. Strang Hist. Eng. vi. 341 Hesitation between the spellings u and o in unstress does not indicate a sound midway between the two phonemes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1945 |
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