His English was American, flawless, unaccented".All of which raises an obvious question.
"I grew up in Germany," the teen replied in unaccented German.
Apart from some unaccented monosyllabic or disyllabic terms of minor importance, each word is marked by an accent (the highest tone within the word) on one of the vowels (one of the last three vowels, if the word has more than three syllables).
Much of the evidence points to a strengthening of stress accent during the Late period, leading to the shortening and swallowing of unaccented syllables: thus, viridem 'green' becomes virdem (verde in several Romance languages); vinea 'vine' becomes vinia (French vigne, Spanish viña 'vineyard,' etc).
Thus, d appears when the preceding syllable was originally unaccented (fadar: Greek patér-, Sanskrit pitár-), and þ occurs when the preceding syllable was originally accented (broþar: Greek phrā́ter- 'member of a clan,' Sanskrit bhrā́tar-).
A neutral vowel was probably used in some unaccented syllables and was written u or i (optumus, optimus 'best'), but the latter rendering became standard.
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.
In addition, fronting of nonfront vowels under the influence of following i or j in unaccented syllables, "i-umlaut," developed earlier 6th 7th centuriess) and more consistently in North Sea Germanic and North Germanic than in South Germanic (8th 9th centuries).
High rhythmic detail, swing, and a complex approach to harmony characterize Marsh's sophisticated solo lines, which he usually preferred to play over unaccented rhythm accompaniments, the better to focus attention on his fluent melodies.
I find Natasha Bridge conferring in fluent, unaccented Portuguese with the sommelier.
Arsis and thesis, in prosody, respectively, the accented and unaccented parts of a poetic foot.
