Sentence examples for position of accent from inspiring English sources

For the L-ME method, we made the following assumptions: First, the position of accent commands will be close to the location of syllable with lexical stress.

For the T-ME method, we made the following assumptions: First, the position of accent commands will be close to the location of syllable with high-tone pitch accent.

Proto-Indo-European had a variable pitch accent that could fall on any syllable of a word, but in late Proto-Germanic, two changes occurred: first, the quality of the accent changed, such that articulatory energy was increasingly focused on the accented syllable; second, the position of the accent was regularized on the initial (root) syllable.

The position of this accent command is measured relative to location of syllables with high tone in pitch accent.

Sometimes two otherwise identical words are differentiated by the nature or the position of the accent: for example, oîkoi ('houses') is a nominative plural form and oíkoi ('at home') an adverb of place; tómos means 'a cut' and tomós 'cutting.' The accent (which is not associated with stress) does not play any part in the rhythm of the language.

The difference between Gothic d in fadar 'father' and þ in broþar 'brother,' for example, both corresponding to t in Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, proved to be correlated with the original position of the accent, a discovery known as Verner's law (named for the Danish linguist Karl Verner).

The position of this accent command is measured relative to ending of intermediate intonational phrase.

The position of this accent command is measured relative to location of the syllables with lexical stress.

The relative position of the accent commands, T 0 r and T 1 r, are measured as described in section 5.1.

John Huppenthal, Arizona's superintendent of public instruction, has sent mixed signals about the state's position on accents.

The number and relative positions of accented and unaccented beats furnish the basis of proper metric articulation, with the strongest accent usually falling on the first beat after the bar line.