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syllabe accentuée

[Subentry of accentué, syllabe]

Eng    accented syllable, nuclear syllable, stressed syllable, tonic syllable

Synonym(s): syllabe tonique

Antonym(s): syllabe atone, syllabe inaccentuée

Related term(s): syllabe porteuse de l'accent

Domain: Phonology

Source(s): Arrivé etal. 1986: 579; Canu & Renaud 1968: 65; Creissels 1994: 174; Dubois etal. 1994: 4; Martinet 1955: 162; Mounin 1974: 3, 55; Riegel etal. 1994: 58

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