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Accented Syllable In Prosody Crossword Clue

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noun

• The stronger part of a musical measure: the part containing the beat.

• The stronger part of a metrical foot: the part containing the long (heavy) syllable in quantitative meter, or the stressed syllable in a qualitative meter.

• The elevation of the hand, or that part of the bar at which it is raised, in beating time; the weak or unaccented part of the bar, opposed to the thesis.

• The elevation of the voice to a higher pitch in speaking.

53%8Syllable that precedes the stressed or accented syllable in a word
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42%10 A foot comprising of an unstressed syllable, followed by a stressed syllable, followed by an unstressed syllable
noun

• a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed-unstressed syllables (e.g., `remember')

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New York Times10 May 1978 Down 8
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