unstressability
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[edit]Noun
[edit]unstressability (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The quality of being unstressable.
- 1984, Harry van der Hulst, Syllable structure and stress in Dutch, page 114:
- Hence by saying that the first part of the schwa is empty T claims to explain its unstressability.
- 2012, Sascha Gaglia, Inflection and Word Formation in Romance Languages, page 120:
- 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.