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accentual unit

[Subentry of accentual, unit]

Fr    unité accentuelle, unité d'accentuation

Related term(s): accented unit, accentuable unit, stress group, stress-bearing unit, syllable, unit capable of bearing stress

Domain: Phonology

Source(s):

Ducrot & Todorov 1979[trans.]: 182

DUCROT, Oswald and TODOROV, Tzvetan. (1979 [trans.]) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the  Sciences of Language. Trans. by Catherine Porter. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 

Hartmann & Stork 1972: 2

HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.

Martinet 1964[trans.]: 86

MARTINET, André. (1964 [trans.]) Elements of General Linguistics. Chicago: University of Chicago.  (FM)

Nash 1968: 4

NASH, Rose. (1968) Multilingual Lexicon of Linguistics and Philology: English, Russian, German, French. Coral Gables, FL: University of Miami Press. 

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