Unstressability
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Unstressability is a noun meaning (linguistics) The quality of being unstressable.
Meaning
(linguistics) The quality of being unstressable.
Example Sentences
Hence by saying that the first part of the schwa is empty T claims to explain its unstressability.
An explanation for the general ability of French clitics to receive stress might be that French, unlike the other Romance languages, only has phrasal stress, and that the alleged unstressability of clitics only holds for lexical stress.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include stressability, unstressedness, stresslessness, stressedness, untroublesomeness, unexcitability.
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