French/English Glossary of Linguistic Terms

French word list

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	abréger
	abréviation
	abruption
	absolu
	absorption1
	abstraction
	abstrait
	accent1
	accent2
	accent3
	accent chromatique
	accent lié
	accent non-rhotique
	accent rhotique
	accent syllabique

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accent₁

Fr    accent₁, accent d'énergie, accent d'intensité, accent dynamique, accent expiratoire, accent tonique

nS

Synonym(s): dynamic accent, stress₁, stress accent

Type of: prosodic feature, prosody₂

Related term(s): fall on

Source(s): Crystal 2003: 3 (#2); Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 181; Finch 2000: 200-201; Hamp 1963: 16; Matthews 1997: 4 (#1); Pei & Gaynor 1954: 5 (#1); Richards etal. 1992: 1 (#1)

Sub-entries:

• dynamic accent
• fixed accent
• pitch accent
• primary accent
• sentence accent
• stress accent
• word accent

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English word list

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	absolute homophony
	absolute origin of locating operations
	absolute synonym
	absolute synonymy
	absolute tense
	absolute transitive
	absolute universals
	absolutive
	absorption1
	abstract1
	abstract2
	abstract representation
	abstraction
	abstractness
	accent1

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