| 单词 | unaccented |
| 例句 | It didn’t matter how unaccented my English was. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z You need to fluently speak unaccented American English. In the age of ear buds and audiobooks, they want to be the voices in your head 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “Then, surprisingly he breaks into American unaccented English,” said the director. Michael Mann film finds China, U.S. on same side of cyber battle 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z In perfect, nearly unaccented English, Szijjártó explained that Hungary is “a clearly rightist, right-wing, Christian Democratic, conservative, patriotic government.” Hungary: Criticism makes it hard to cooperate with West 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z His English, honed during his high school years in suburban Philadelphia and early professional stints in Washington and New York, is unaccented and idiomatic. Perspective | Netanyahu has dominated the U.S.-Israel relationship. What happens if he’s gone? 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z “I hate it,” Barrios said in unaccented English. ICE Air: Shackled deportees, air freshener and cheers. America’s one-way trip out. 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done,” she intoned in unaccented English. Their ancestors fled U.S. slavery for Mexico. Now they’re looking north again. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z When I would arrive at my destination, the Ateneo de Manila University, one of the country’s most prestigious schools, I would hear students speaking what sounded to my Pennsylvanian ears to be virtually unaccented English. How the US has hidden its empire 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Now, with the generation of Russians who powered his rise dying off and their assimilated offspring speaking unaccented Hebrew and voting for other parties, his party is on the decline. Lieberman’s Colorful Career Reaches a Fork. Again. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z He now lives in Arizona as a legal permanent resident with his daughter, who goes to an American school and speaks unaccented English. Trump Administration Considers Unprecedented Curbs on Asylum for Migrants 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z There is no such thing as perfect, neutral or unaccented English — or Spanish, for that matter, or any other language. Opinion | Everyone Has an Accent 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z In unaccented English, he apologized and said he could not attend, she recalled. The 21st-century Russian sleeper agent is a troll with an American accent 2018-02-17T05:00:00Z The writer does not mention the advantage of speaking unaccented language, which is a significant advantage often accompanying bi- and multi- racial children. Opinion | Black With (Some) White Privilege 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z Ei speaks perfect, unaccented English, even though she goes to a Japanese kindergarten and hears only a little English at home from her father. Can you declutter if you have kids? This Japanese dad says you can. 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z He looked and sounded every bit like an American special forces soldier as he barked airstrike coordinates into a radio in unaccented English. In Ramadi, Small Force Carried a Big Burden 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Witnesses at the Bataclan concert described the assailants as young, perhaps in their 20s, and speaking unaccented French, according to news accounts here. Attack in France spotlights Europe's vulnerability to terrorism 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z They also were described as young, perhaps in their 20s, and speaking in unaccented French. Paris terror attacks updates: Coordinated assaults were planned in Belgium, U.S. sources say 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The actor studied hard, but he concluded: “If I had come here as a boy, I could speak unaccented English; at 24, it is impossible.” Louis Jourdan, Frenchman who starred in ‘Gigi,’ dies at 93 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Speaking nearly unaccented English, he declares: “This filthy blood is just some of what awaits you.” Video appears to show Islamic militants beheading Christians in Libya 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z If we know they were speaking unaccented French and they had ski masks on, do we even know what color they were, what the tone of their skin was? “The best thing Americans can do is arm themselves”: The worst Fox news responses to the Charlie Hebdo attack 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men spoke in fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees. Hunt for 2 in French Shooting That Killed 12; 1 Surrenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Shouting “Allahu akbar!” as they fired, the men used fluent, unaccented French as they called out the names of specific employees. Hunt for 2 in French shooting that killed 12; 1 surrenders 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z As part of its efforts to identify foreign fighters, the F.B.I. on Tuesday released the video of an Islamic State fighter speaking in unaccented North American English as he holds a gun to a prisoner. U.S. Steps Up Fight to Block ISIS Volunteers 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z A recent spot for Tide, a washing powder, shows a middle-aged Latina lauding her detergent in Spanish while her teenage granddaughter glances up from her phone to translate her abuelita’s eulogy into unaccented English. Marketing: The lust for Latino lucre 2013-05-09T15:00:32Z The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; Ð the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Then notice the short vowel sounds in the unaccented syllables, and give them search-light attention. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z "Yes, sir," said the servant, in a wholly unaccented English. Running Sands 2012-02-05T03:00:08.983Z Tall, thin and beginning to gray, Hirai speaks in unaccented American English. Sony’s Hirai Vows to Deliver Stringer Vision With Cost Cuts 2012-02-02T23:59:03Z Iambus, ī-am′bus, n. a metrical foot of two syllables, the first short and the second long, as in L. fĭdēs; or the first unaccented and the second accented, as in deduce—also Iamb′.—adj. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, proÐphet¶ic. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The rhythmical system is dependent, not upon measure,xx but upon accent, with considerable freedom in the addition or suppression of unaccented syllables. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z When I played him my setting, the word “devil” was set to a higher note in the question than it was in the answer, and the penultimate word “they” was unaccented. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Where it is not ordinarily lost, it disappears in unaccented syllables, as “Give it ’im” and the like. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z The most important feature of both sequences is the swing from a glacial to an inter-glacial epoch or from the arsis or accentuated part of an historical pulsation to the thesis or unaccented part. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Every verse, with the exception of the last, is made up of two half-verses each containing three accented syllables and separated by a ringing c�sura, that is, a c�sura on an unaccented syllable. The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition 2012-01-04T03:00:37.750Z Eventually, they determined that the abstract symbols, not the unaccented Roman letters, bore the message. US, Swedish researchers say they used modern computer program to crack 250-year-old cipher 2011-10-26T21:45:10Z He is slightly deaf, and this may be the cause of his unaccented utterance,—owing to his not being able to regulate his voice exactly by his own ear.... Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z I, when unaccented and followed by a vowel, is sounded as y. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z A prefix of one or two unaccented syllables to a verse properly beginning with an accented syllable. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Also that in such words as deject, reject, &c., the two e's sound alike, like most unaccented e's in the language. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z Hyphenated or nonhyphenated and accented or unaccented versions of same words retained as in original when occurring evenly, or consistently by individual author or speaker. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The Italian hendecasyllable is an accentual iambic line of five feet with one unaccented syllable over and included in the rhyme. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z It is a mistake to suppose that the disappearance of final unaccented e from many words or its instability in many others made it difficult for Lydgate and his fellows to write melodious verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z These songs are made up of lines of from two to five syllables, of which one to four are unaccented, the poet being bound by no definite numbers. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The 10 Varela students interviewed are all trilingual, speaking French, Creole and unaccented English. On Education: An Influx of Haitians Confounds Expectations 2011-01-15T22:34:26Z She was still looking away from him across the water, and the tone was quiet and unaccented. The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath After that there was an interim of the usual dull, unaccented civilian monotony, mitigated at rare intervals by this dun-coloured ebb and flow from Plattsburg. The Moonlit Way In the case of the latter, the survival of the syllable “man” in Le Mans is due to the stress laid on the vowel; had the vowel been short and unaccented, it would have disappeared. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Further, the northern dialects go very far in dropping unaccented final vowels. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" This notation of feet I have used in my 'Primer of English Verse,' a representing an accented, and x, an unaccented, syllable. The Voice and Spiritual Education Vowels found in unaccented syllables are unmarked and are given the natural, or long, sound. The Bible Story About these things, their workmanship, the histories of their times, he told her in his easy, unaccented voice, glancing sideways at her from time to time to note how she stood it. The Moonlit Way In words ending in unaccented e, the final e is dropped before a suffix beginning with a vowel. Practical High School Speller It is called feminine when it follows an unaccented syllable. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History "I am the commander of this complement," the taller of the two said in an almost unaccented English. The Women-Stealers of Thrayx This i, though unaccented and soon displaced, exerted a powerful back influence upon the vowel of the preceding accented syllable. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Again, Webster omitted the u in the unaccented termination our, as honor for honour. Noah Webster American Men of Letters The half-lines consist of two accented and a varying number of unaccented syllables. Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose The unaccented parts of the line vary in both the number and length of the syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History Each phrase of each sentence, like an air or a recitative in music, should be so artfully compounded out of long and short, out of accented and unaccented, as to gratify the sensual ear. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Old English poetry is composed of certain rhythmically ordered combinations of accented and unaccented 126 syllables. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Like all his countrymen, he laid most stress on unaccented syllables. Miss Cayley's Adventures Again, if the answering part enters on an unaccented beat where the leader began on the accent, there will be artistic value in the resulting difference of rhythmic expression. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Schipper gives a separate paragraph also to "unaccented rime," where the similarity of sound belongs wholly to final, unstressed syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It will be discovered that by combining accented and unaccented syllables into groups of two, three and four an immense variety of feet can be produced. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Type B, × –́ | × –́ Two, but not more than two, unaccented syllables may intervene between the stresses. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary The fact is that one short unaccented vowel is very likely to be mistaken, for another, especially by the uneducated and by careless speakers. Latin Pronunciation A Short Exposition of the Roman Method "What has she done!" exclaimed Gerhardt, his excitement growing under the strain he was enduring, and speaking almost unaccented English in consequence. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel In certain cases, unaccented syllables even show a tendency to length beyond that of those bearing the stress, as in words like follow, dying, and others where the final sound is easily prolonged. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The other syllables are short and unaccented, and the vowels in that situation have in general the same short obscure sound. Elements of Gaelic Grammar As in B, two unaccented syllables in the first thesis are more common than one. Anglo-Saxon Grammar and Exercise Book with Inflections, Syntax, Selections for Reading, and Glossary Double rhymes.—An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one, and coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a double rhyme. A Handbook of the English Language If all these verses be observed carefully, it will be seen that in each group of syllables there is one accented syllable combined with one or two unaccented. English: Composition and Literature There is a tendency toward the coincidence of long and accented, and of short and unaccented, syllables. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History An Appoggiatura cannot be made on an unaccented Syllable. Observations on the Florid Song or Sentiments on the Ancient and Modern Singers In the Middle Cornish manuscripts the vowels are represented in various ways, and there is a special uncertainty about unaccented and obscure vowels. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature An accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones, and coming under the conditions given above, constitutes a treble rhyme. A Handbook of the English Language A foot is a group of syllables composed of one accented syllable combined with one or more unaccented. English: Composition and Literature The joy so short, 20*; Torment of the Unhappy Lover, 101 f.*; unaccented rime in, 122 n. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History This quality must not be confused with the unaccented succession, seen in a measured scale of hue, value, or chroma. A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma This is used chiefly as an unaccented final in a word of more than one syllable. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Some rhymes are double, and the last accented syllable has two unaccented ones to follow it. A Handbook of the English Language At the beginning of a poem an unaccented syllable seems weak; and so very frequently the first foot of a poem is trochaic; often the first two or three feet are of this kind. English: Composition and Literature The line is a trimeter,—each dipodia containing two accented and two unaccented syllables, but variously arranged, as thus:— u - - u | - u u - | u - u - A soothsayer | bids you beware | the Ides of March. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher The first and third lines of each stanza have an added unaccented syllable, while the second and fourth have just three full feet. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Indeed all unaccented vowels tend to become obscure, very much as they do in English, and hence are variously expressed. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature Nothing remains but the unaccented syllable preceding; and this, as no measure can subsist without an accent, must be counted as a supernumerary part of the preceding measure. A Handbook of the English Language In “Hiawatha” the accented syllable comes first, and the unaccented follows it. English: Composition and Literature Aphesis is the loss of the unaccented first syllable, as in 'baccy and 'later. The Romance of Names The poetical accents sometimes fall on unaccented syllables and sometimes on monosyllabic words that are not emphatic, but usually the metrical accent of any given word corresponds to its logical accent. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Note that the syllable war in these words is unaccented. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature The foot consisting of an unaccented followed by an accented syllable is called an iambus. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Both are composed of alternating accented and unaccented syllables; and the kind of metre depends upon which comes first in the foot. English: Composition and Literature Each foot contains an accented and an unaccented syllable. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 Short syllables are those which are unaccented, even though the vowel has the long sound. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The native shifted to the left, answered in pure, unaccented High Galactese: “Who are you?” Missing Link The scheme of the verse is as follows: This foot, consisting of one accented syllable, followed by two unaccented syllables, is called a dactyl. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism If the unaccented syllable is supplied at the beginning the poem is iambic; if at the end, it is trochaic. English: Composition and Literature This last example is also an instance of another practice, by modern judgement a license, viz. making a line end with two unaccented ‘extrametrical’ syllables. The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising Pronouncing the unaccented syllable of a word at the end of a phrase with too much stress. Essentials in Conducting Very frequently the metrical accent does not coincide with the syllabic accent: the musical accent will fall on an unaccented syllable, or vice versa. Style in Singing In like manner a pause may sometimes take the place of an unaccented syllable. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The marked verses have an accented syllable preceded by an unaccented syllable. English: Composition and Literature There is a large number of verses which a modern ear pronounces to want their first unaccented syllable. The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising Elision, the omission or crowding out of unstressed words or unaccented syllables to make the metre smoother; a term belonging to classical prosody and inappropriate in English prosody except where syllable-counting verse is concerned. The Principles of English Versification E final in proper English words never forms a syllable, and in the most used words in the terminating unaccented syllables it is silent. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Contrariwise, thought of grave and meditative character, admiration, reverence, and all the deeper and calmer feelings, require a deliberative, slow-timed utterance, with long quantities for accented syllables, and extended time for even unaccented syllables. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 It may be noted that ye can be pronounced more rapidly than you, and is therefore frequent when an unaccented syllable is required. Milton's Comus In the illustration above, all very obscure sounds have been replaced by the apostrophe, while no distinction has been made between short vowels in accented and unaccented syllables. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Sometimes also unaccented syllables are rimed with accented syllables, as burning: sing. The Principles of English Versification In syncopation the normal system of accenting is temporarily suspended and the accented tone falls on the regularly unaccented part of the measure. Music Notation and Terminology Hence the significant rule, that a melodic member may begin at any part of a measure, upon an accented or an unaccented beat, or upon any fraction of a beat. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition As Guly released her hand she looked at him more attentively than she had done before, and said, sweetly, in pure unaccented English— "I hope we may be very good friends, Guly." The Brother Clerks A Tale of New-Orleans She was rather little, and was dressed with a sort of unaccented propriety, which was as far from distinction as it was from pretension. A Pair of Patient Lovers In other words, a foot is a section of speech-rhythm containing a stressed element and an unstressed element, usually one or two unaccented syllables. The Principles of English Versification Whatever in the man's face and figure was usually colourless, unaccented, irresolute, disappeared as he glared rigidly at the other. The Danger Mark Examine, also, all the preceding examples, and note the different accented or unaccented locations of the first tone, in each figure and motive. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition It is curious that the close o is heard only in the infrequent diphthong óu, or as an obscured, unaccented final. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The 1st sonata may be noticed for its bold chords, and its sforzandos on unaccented beats, which sound Beethovenish. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development The other syllables are either unaccented, as the first of material and the second of portion, or have a secondary accent, as the second of deliberation. The Principles of English Versification This rule does not provide for the cases when the division must come on an unaccented syllable. Division of Words Rules for the Division of Words at the Ends of Lines, with Remarks on Spelling, Syllabication and Pronunciation In duple rhythm the accent is followed by one unaccented or lighter beat, so that regular alternation of heavy and light pulses prevails incessantly. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition The most common faults of articulation are dropping an unaccented vowel, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, suppressing final consonants, omitting or mispronouncing syllables, and blending words. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader "Shakespeare uses this unaccented gliding ending more in his later works to give an easier more unconstrained movement." An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway The pause is of 'just the right length' when it is functionally equal to two unaccented elements with their succeeding intervals, as follows: . Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In our own language, poetry is based upon accent, and poetical form consists essentially in a certain succession of accented and unaccented syllables. New Latin Grammar By metre is meant a regular recurrence of accented syllables among unaccented syllables. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study Omitting an unaccented vocal, dropping the final sound, sounding incorrectly an unaccented vowel, and omitting syllables. 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading The value of ə when Mr. Jones first substituted it for a disguised unaccented vowel, was that the speaker might know what sound he had to produce. Society for Pure English, Tract 02 On English Homophones One cannot say, therefore, that in such a rhythmic form there are two quantities present, an accented element and two undifferentiated elements which are unaccented. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. VERSIFICATION, in English, is the harmonious arrangement of a particular number and variety of accented and unaccented syllables, according to particular laws. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures A line must begin with an accented syllable, the last accent but one be followed by two unaccented syllables, and the last by one. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study We know in English how much the unaccented syllables suffer in a long word like "laboratory." The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature And this weakness is so inherent in Italian speech, that every line even of the blank verse in all the twenty-two tragedies of Alfieri ends femininely, that is, with an unaccented eleventh syllable. Essays Æsthetical In the third and fourth forms the difficulty in coördinating the unaccented initial elements has resulted in the substitution of a dipodic division for the anapæstic structure of triple rhythms with final accent. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In the unaccented termination re, the r is sounded after the e; as in fibre, centre. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures An accented syllable is followed by one or two unaccented. Evangeline with Notes and Plan of Study Some scholars go so far as to maintain that in course of time all distinction in quantity in the unaccented vowels was lost in popular Latin. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature In singing the jog, the short note is given a very pointed accent, the voice dropping quickly with a sort of jerk to the second, unaccented, sustained tone. The Tinguian Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine Tribe If such accents be present in the series, the position of the limits is still a function of the intensive preponderance of the accented over the unaccented elements of the group. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A great license was allowed as to the number of unaccented syllables, and as to their position in regard to the accented ones; and this lent great freedom and vigor to the verse. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 In all four of these cases—initial j, initial v, final “zh,” and unaccented a of father—English has not taken on a new sound but has merely extended the use of an old one. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech In Latin the long unaccented vowels and the final syllable, which was never protected by the accent, were peculiarly likely to lose their full value. The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature Dr. Johnson held the not to be too important a qualification to leave unaccented. Society for Pure English, Tract 01 (1919) In fast tempos and with high degrees of emphasis the interval following the initial accent is relatively longer, that following the unaccented relatively shorter, than at slow tempos and with weak emphasis. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Rhythm in poetry consists of the recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables in regular succession. Composition-Rhetoric Pronounce all accented vowels long except where otherwise indicated, unaccented vowels short; give continental values to vowels, not present English ones. Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech When he spoke his voice was unaccented and stale, like the voice of a man already dead. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 There is also a feeble sound of i or y unaccented, which is equivalent to ee uttered feebly, as in the word diversity. The Grammar of English Grammars The same discrimination into accented and unaccented forms in the final measure was made as in the preceding group. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Feet.+—The metrical effect of the preceding selections is produced by the regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables. Composition-Rhetoric You have perhaps been taught that a "foot" in verse is an accented syllable with one or more unaccented syllables, and you scan poetry by marking all the accented syllables. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans Sylvia saw nothing to be ashamed of in her mother's unaccented and neutral costume, but there was no denying that she looked exactly like any one else. The Bent Twig Thus the accented syllable is not necessarily "longer" than the unaccented, except as the rhythm happens to make it so. The Poems of Sidney Lanier The group begins with a minor stress in both of the present forms, this stress being greater in the unaccented than in the accented type. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A group of accented and unaccented syllables is called a foot. Composition-Rhetoric The line is a trimeter,—each dipodia containing two accented and two unaccented syllables, but variously arranged, as thus;- ^ — — ^ | — ^ ^ — | ^ — ^ — A soothsayer | bids you beware | the Ides of March. Literary Remains, Volume 2 Mr. Masson is especially puzzled by verses ending in one or more unaccented syllables, and even argues in his Introduction that some of them might be reckoned Alexandrines. Among My Books Second Series It is a well-known property of human speech that it keeps up a ceaseless change between accented and unaccented syllables. A Study of Poetry The evidence of rhythmical treatment in such a series of reactions, which is strongly marked in the unaccented form, nevertheless receives reinforcement from these inconsiderable but harmonious results. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A pyrrhic is a foot consisting of two syllables both of which are unaccented. Composition-Rhetoric It does not follow that the music was unrhythmic because it was unaccented, and because in writing it was not divided into bars. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama For example, unaccented syllables should be lightly pronounced and the right shading carefully observed. Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System A long succession of accented syllables becomes unbearably monotonous; a long succession of unaccented syllables is, in effect, impossible. A Study of Poetry The proportional values of the variations in alternate measures for accented and unaccented elements are given in the following table, in which the figures for the trochaic and iambic forms are combined: Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A. Mark the accented and unaccented syllables in the following selections, and name the kind of verse:— 1. Composition-Rhetoric The syllable having the grave accent is, as we should say, unaccented. The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it This should be practised in connection with the interpretation of melodious, flowing passages, which will furnish opportunity for the appreciation of the relation between the accented and unaccented syllables and the important and unimportant words. Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System Now when the ear detects at regular intervals a recurrence of accented syllables, varying with unaccented, it perceives Rhythm. A Study of Poetry Table XLIV. exhibits the series of temporal changes taking place in accented and unaccented intervals, respectively, for the three forms combined, and therefore independent of position in the group. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The regular recurrence of accented and unaccented syllables produces a harmony which appeals to our aesthetic sense and thus enhances for us the beauty of poetry. Composition-Rhetoric The first half of each line ends in an unaccented syllabic—or, strictly speaking, in a syllable bearing a secondary accent; that is, each line has what is called a "ringing" caesura. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original Very often unaccented syllables are made unduly prominent and unimportant words are over-emphasized through lack of attention to this principle. Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System But masters of alliterative effects, like Keats, Tennyson and Verlaine, constantly employ alliteration in unaccented syllables so as to color the tone-quality of a line without a too obvious assault upon the ear. A Study of Poetry During the present investigation several observers were asked to determine at just what point in the fundamental movement the unaccented syllable occurred, when the subject gave a series of nonsense syllables. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. For the sake of convenience the accented syllables are indicated thus: _, and the unaccented syllables thus: U. An iambus is a foot consisting of two syllables with the accent on the last. Composition-Rhetoric Of unaccented syllables the number may vary within certain limits. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original E final, in proper English words, never forms a syllable, and in the most-used words, in the terminating unaccented syllable it is silent. Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby This I think it better not to attempt retaining, because the final unaccented syllable is generally one of those e's which, having first become mute, have since been dropped from our spelling altogether. England's Antiphon The quantitative analysis of intensive relations begins with triple rhythms, since its original object was to compare the relative stresses of the unaccented elements of the rhythmic group. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. "It is virtually finished," repeated McKay in his toneless, unaccented voice which carried such terrible conviction to the other man. In Secret Ordinarily each accented syllable is preceded by an unaccented one; that is, the majority of feet are iambic. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original But there might also be as many unaccented syllables as the poet liked. English Literature for Boys and Girls She made two sweet unaccented syllables of petted in her ingenue French accent and added: "For you know women were made to be pet-ted." The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me Two rhythm forms were analyzed, the trochaic and the dactylic, the series of sounds being given by hammer-falls of 7/8 and 1/8 inch for accented and unaccented elements respectively. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Its accentual life is usually manifested on an unaccented part of the bar, especially at the end of a section or phrase. Chopin : the Man and His Music The unaccented syllable may, however, at times be wanting, or there may, on the other hand, be two or even three of them together. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original They raised their hats to the Kid's girl and went on with their calm, unaccented palaver. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million Often when he reached a forte he gave a violent down beat even if the note were an unaccented one. Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words The intervals between the successive sounds were adjusted on the basis of previous experimentation concerning the most acceptable relations between the durations of accented and unaccented intervals. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. She recognized as one of them the slow unaccented tones of Neigh. The Hand of Ethelberta A characteristic of the second half of the last line is that there is very frequently no unaccented syllable between the second and the third accented ones. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original The initial unaccented a is short, for the same reason why the syllables da and wa are so, that is, because it corresponds to an Arabic letter, the Hamzah or silent h, moved by Fathah. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 So that it seems best to treat the rest as amphibrachic, with a superfluous unaccented syllable at the beginning of the line. The Lady of the Lake Thus, 34, 34, 34, 34, 34 represents a series of iambs in which the unaccented click has the length of three, and the accented click the length of four spaces between pegs. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Accented letters in the Italian poems have been replaced by the unaccented letter. The Poetical Works of John Milton Here the only place where the unaccented syllable is lacking before the accented is before wunders at the beginning of the second half of the first line. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original "Oh, yes, I will let you hear it," she said into the starlit space in a voice of unaccented gentleness which changed subtly as she went on. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows A further peculiarity of the "Nibelungen" strophe is the frequent omission of the unaccented syllable in the second half of the last line of the strophe between the second and third stresses. The Nibelungenlied A number of measurements by different observers show that in the iambic foot the unaccented syllable is proportionately much shorter than the unaccented syllable in the trochaic foot. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The group seems an iamb with a duplicated unaccented syllable. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The unaccented syllable is lacking, e.g., before the second accent of the second half of line two, also before the first and the third accent of the second half of line four. The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original It is possible to form a unit group in nonsense syllables where the unaccented syllable of the iamb shall be represented not by two syllables, as in the anapæst, but by even three. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Often the appearance under the microscope is very striking; the sonants of the feet, both accented and unaccented, increase to the special accent and then decrease in a regular crescendo—diminuendo form. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The accented syllable of the dactyl is longest, and the second unaccented syllable, the last in the group, is shortest. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The sounds were two in number, alternately accented and unaccented, produced by hammer-falls of 7/8 and 1/8 inch respectively. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The rhythmic material is combined in larger syntheses than the groups of two beats, alternately accented and unaccented, which were avowedly in mind. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. In this larger group the initial period, or element of stress, is characterized by a greater mean variation than the unaccented period which follows it. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. For here, though both elements have constant relations as accented or unaccented members of the group, the factor of stress has been transferred from the initial to the final beat. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. They are both within the zone of the unaccented syllable of the iamb. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. |
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