Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

acento fixo

English translation:

fixed stress

Added to glossary by zabrowa
Nov 11, 2007 08:58
16 yrs ago
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Portuguese term

acento fixo

Portuguese to English Science Linguistics
O acento fixo incide na última sílaba da palavra, exceto no caso de palavras em que ocorre sufixo extramétrico.

Somehow this doesn't seem so ideal, though it does make sense I suppose:

The bound stress occurs on the word-final syllable, except in words which have an extrametrical suffix.
Proposed translations (English)
4 +3 fixed/bound stress (accent)

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fixed/bound stress (accent)

Though loudness and stress for emphasis and certain linguistic indications of ... A fixed stress accent is found in the West Slavic languages as well as ...
www.britannica.com/eb/topic-568876/stress - 41k - Cached - Similar pages

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Note added at 5 mins (2007-11-11 09:04:16 GMT)
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so-called fixed stress systems. Languages with a fixed stress location place the primary ... International Journal of American Linguistics. 51: 427-429. ...
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Note added at 6 mins (2007-11-11 09:05:00 GMT)
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The only thing which has to be taken into account is that disyllabic stems belonging to ap. (a) can have fixed stress on any of the stem syllables, ...
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Note added at 11 mins (2007-11-11 09:10:07 GMT)
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fixed stress - the stress is always associated with a certain syllable of the word, for example in Finnish, Hungarian, Czech, Latvian stress always falls on ...
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Peer comment(s):

agree Muriel Vasconcellos
3 hrs
agree Ryszard Matuszewski
9 hrs
agree Peter Shortall : Normally "fixed", and for "incide" you could put "falls"
2 days 2 hrs
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