Accentual (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Of or pertaining to accent or stress.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The accentual patterns in the ancient Greek language were complex and nuanced, with subtle variations in stress and pitch that conveyed different shades of meaning.
- In linguistics, the study of accentual systems is crucial for understanding how languages assign prominence to certain syllables or words.
- The accentual difference between the two languages was striking, with one language having a heavily syllable-timed rhythm and the other a strong stress-timed rhythm.
- Poets often use accentual techniques such as iambs and trochees to create complex rhythmic effects in their verse.
- The accentual characteristics of the speaker's native language sometimes carried over into their pronunciation of the target language.
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Meaning 2
(of verse) having a metric system based on stress rather than syllables or quantity; "accentual poetry is based on the number of stresses in a line"; "accentual rhythm".
Classification
All adjective clusters.