denoting or relating to the syllable before the one bearing the primary stress in a word
Examples of 'pretonic' in a sentence
pretonic
We investigated various reflexes of prosodic prominence across four positions: tonic, pretonic, posttonic, and word-final.
Michael Kenstowicz, Filomena Sandalo 2016, 'Pretonic Vowel Reduction in Brazilian Portuguese: Harmony and Dispersion', Journal of Portuguese Linguisticshttp://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/articles/7. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)