"accent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Instead of the normal Danish stød, it has tonal accents like Swedish.
- The drummer developed a flamboyant style that included throwing the tambourine into the air and catching it, which the audience called Jù-jú, duplicating the Yoruba word for "throw" with tonal accent.
- Several scholars have proposed that Proto-Norse also had a separate pitch accent, which was inherited from Proto-Indo-European and has evolved into the tonal accents of modern Swedish and Norwegian, which in turn have evolved into the stød of modern Danish.
- One could also think of specific prosodic features, such as tonal accents.
- From the 2nd century BC, spelling errors all over the Mediterranean suggest a loss of vowel length distinction, which is commonly thought to result in the loss of tonal accent.
- Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is reconstructed to have a pitch accent system that is usually described as a free tonal accent.
- This rhythmic principle accords with the linguistic character of the later Greek, which used a stress accent as it had already been developed in Syriac poetry rather than the classical tonal accent.
- The stress-based system was introduced because two thirds of Slovenia does not have tonal accent anymore.
- It is, however, not clear whether these languages lost the tonal accent or whether the tonal accent was not yet there when these languages started their separate development.
- They have unique tonal accents with differences particularly noted amongst Butaritari and Makin inhabitants.
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