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tonic syllable

[Subentry of syllable, tonic]

Fr    syllabe accentuée, syllabe tonique

Synonym(s): accented syllable, nuclear syllable, stressed syllable

Antonym(s): unaccented syllable, unstressed syllable

Related term(s): accent-bearing syllable, tonic vowel

Domain: Phonology

Source(s): Brown & Yule 1983: 156 (= sentence stress); Crystal 2003: 467; Finch 2000: 53; Halliday 1994: 296; Hartmann & Stork 1972: 239; Matthews 1997: 380; Richards etal. 1992: 382-383 (= tonic (n.)); Trask 1996: 359

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