In the last stage of Proto-Germanic, the accent was replaced by a stress accent on the first syllable of the word, but prior to that it left its traces in the operation of Verner's law.
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In some contexts, the term " stress " or " stress accent " is used to mean specifically dynamic accent ( or as an antonym to " pitch accent " in its various meanings ).
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Greek accent marks and breath marks, other than the " rough breathing " ( first in the list of consonants above ), are entirely disregarded; the Greek pitch accent is superseded by a Latin stress accent, which is described below.
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The sounds represented by [ a ] and [ ? ] are allophonic . [ ? ] appears mainly in syllables BEFORE the stress accent and optionally in open unstressed syllables otherwise . [ a ] appears in stressed syllables and in unstressed closed syllables.
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The most significant changes during the Koine Greek period concerned vowels : these were the loss of vowel length distinction, the substitution of the Ancient Greek system of pitch accent with a stress accent system, and the monophthongization of diphthongs ( except and ).
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In 1982, the monotonic orthography was officially adopted, abandoning the rough and smooth breathings ( since the sound had long since disappeared ) and reducing the three types of accent mark to one ( since the tone accent had been replaced by a stress accent ).
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Robinson's alphabet is not only phonetic but to some extent featural, as voicing is not represented on the letters themselves, but by means of diacritics, in a mode that takes some account of assimilative voicing and devoicing of consonant clusters; English stress accent is also indicated by diacritics.
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It is thought that the political verse replaced, in popularity and also in use, the famous dactylic hexameter of the ancient Greeks ( also known as " heroic hexameter " ) in later Greek poetry, from the time of the early modern Greek, following the loss of ancient stress accent.
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The loss of unstressed vowels, particularly those after the stress, ultimately produced the situation in Modern French where the accent is uniformly found on the last syllable of a word . ( Ironically, in Modern French the stress accent is quite weak, with little difference between the pronunciation of stressed and unstressed vowels .)
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The dialects that have a Tokyo-type accent, like the standard Tokyo dialect described above, are distributed over Hokkaido, northern Tottori, typically have a more-or-less low tone in unaccented words; accented syllables have a high tone, with low tone on either side, rather like English stress accent.
