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prosodic system - the system of accentuation used in a particular language

accentual system

language system - a system of linguistic units or elements used in a particular language

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Investigating 12 languages from different language families and disparate regions of the African continent, linguists discuss the complete prosodic system of the language or languages, that is the tone and intonation and the interaction between the two.

Intonation in African Tone Languages

Farrokhi: Ghaznavid court poet ode great theorist who lived in the late 4th and early 5th century, he spoke to the prosodic system and Zabihullah fun enough, we say: ((Sistan was the son of Ghulam Ali Khalaf lady, good humor and poetry extremely well told and gave more grip)) or ((the simplicity and elegance and tasteful Sheets and licorice Saadi who is the lyricism

Do thief Moezzi and Montahel Farrokhi Sistani is an element?

In most Uralic languages (including those with fixed stress) the prosodic system is not trivial.

Morphophonological nature of Mari accentuation as viewed from the Uralic perspective

The amazing subtleties of effect great poets have achieved by finding the give in a prosodic system will eventually flash on a diligent student's mind.

Poetic data and the news from poems: a For Better for Verse memoir

introduction of the Yeongming prosodic system in its original, complex

Tonal prosody in Chinese parallel prose

In medieval poetics and into the Renaissance, as Sidney's remark suggests, the prosodic system of which rhyme is the main marker was seen as constitutive of poetry.

Rhyme, the icons of sound, and the Middle English 'Pearl.'(Rhetoric and Poetics)

--1997, The Prosodic System of Estonian in the Finnic Space.--Estonian Prosody: Papers from a Symposium.

Feet, syllables, moras and the estonian quantity system

In this article we present a description of some aspects of the prosodic system of the non-Austronesian (Papuan) language Kuot, spoken on New Ireland, Papua New Guinea.

Aspects of the prosody of Kuot, a language where intonation ignores stress (1)

3 One cannot help thinking of an example from ancient Greek with its very similar prosodic system: ???

On Verbal Accentuation in the Rigveda

The Livonian prosodic system has been quite thoroughly studied during the past years.

Tonal and temporal characteristics of disyllabic words in spontaneous Livonian

Let us first of all recall that even a very long sentence can have a completely flat intonation pattern, and hence no intonational substructuring, this being one of the primary features of the Wolof prosodic system (section 2).

The intonational system of Wolof *

Can this bewildering synchronic diversity be traced back to a single prosodic system at the Proto-TB (PTB) stage?