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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

poststress en · ADJ

Etymology

From post- + stress.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) After a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
    • Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F₀-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F₀-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F₀-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F₀-minimum in the poststress syllable. 1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition, New York, NY: Psychology Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 217:

Coordinates

prestress