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poststress

poststress adjective: after a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).

Adjective

poststress (not comparable)

  1. After a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
    • Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F₀-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F₀-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F₀-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F₀-minimum in the poststress syllable.1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To...

Origin of poststress

From post- + stress.

Questions about poststress

What does poststress mean?
Poststress means after a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).
What part of speech is poststress?
Poststress is an adjective.

Words near poststress in the dictionary

  1. poststomal
  2. poststorm
  3. poststratification
  4. poststratifications
  5. poststreptococcal
  6. poststress
  7. poststrike
  8. poststroke
  9. poststructural
  10. poststructuralism
  11. poststructuralisms

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