DIZIONARIO GENERALE PLURILINGUE
DEL LESSICO METALINGUISTICO



Lemmaaccentual alternation
Categoria grammaticaleN
Linguainglese
SiglaSapir (1921)
TitoloLanguage
Sinonimichanging stress (inglese)
variation in accent (inglese) 
Rinviiaffixing (inglese)
functional process (inglese)
grammatical process (inglese) 
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Citazioni

[...] accent as a functional process is [...] is so often combined with alternations in vocalic quantity or quality or complicated by the presence of affixed elements that its grammatical value appears as secondary rather than as a primary feature.
- Sapir (1921), Pag. 79