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In phonology, barytonesis, or recessive accent, is the shift of accent from the last or following syllable to any non-final or preceding syllable of the stem, as in John Donne's poetic line: but éxtreme sense hath made them desperate, the Balto-Slavic Pedersen's law and Aeolic Greek barytonesis. The opposite, the accent shift to the last syllable is called oxytonesis.

References

1. Vijayakumar, Anand. Montano, Lina (ed.). "Recessive accent". Literary Dictionary. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2019 – via Answers.com.
2. Lubotsky, A. M. (1988). The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European. Brill Publishers. p. 51. ISBN 90-04-08835-0.

External links

• [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of barytonesis at Wiktionary

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