What does unstressability mean?
Unstressability means (linguistics) The quality of being unstressable..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(linguistics) The quality of being unstressable..
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.
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Unstressability means (linguistics) The quality of being unstressable..
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Hence by saying that the first part of the schwa is empty T claims to explain its unstressability.
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