penultimateformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Final and finally
as a last resortidiom
at the end of the dayidiom
back end
closer
closing
conclusion
end
eventually
final
finally
hear/see the last of somethingidiom
last
lastly
latest
latter
next to last
the last but oneidiom
the last someone heard/saw of someone/somethingidiom
ultimately

Examples of antepenultimate

antepenultimate
Although stress falls predominantly on the penultimate syllable in nouns, antepenultimate and final syllable stress occur as well.
This follows from constraint interactions that occlude underlying stress from surfacing on any syllable to the left of the antepenultimate syllable.
Phonological lengthening in this case is never optimal and so any duration increase in an open antepenultimate syllable is a phonetic correlate of stress.
Since the foot containing a stressed antepenultimate vowel is bimoraic, there is no pressure to lengthen a stressed antepenultimate vowel.
In fact, while there is a remarkable duration difference between penultimate and antepenultimate syllable, the duration difference between antepenultimate and preantepenultimate syllable is much smaller.
They are identical to the stems, except for the - very frequent - group of verbs with antepenultimate stress, which appear with penultimate accent in the gerund.
When the lexical stress is antepenultimate, the emergent foot is also trochaic.
Two segments are truncated from the right edge of the imperfective, however, when the antepenultimate is a coronal followed by a high vowel (20c).
Exceptions to penultimate stress arise due to lexically marked antepenultimate or final stress.
To limit stress placement, a potential underlying stress to the left of the antepenultimate syllable cannot surface.
The antepenultimate syllable is the furthest left in a noun on which main stress can appear.
The problem, then, is how to get infixed -i- to ' spread ' to the antepenultimate syllable.
A stressed antepenultimate vowel is part of a disyllabic (hence bimoraic) foot, so there is no phonological motivation for lengthening.
In the second experiment, we investigated whether the difference in syllable structure in words with antepenultimate stress plays a role in the processing of stress.
We take this result as evidence for the assumption that a final syllable is strong in words with antepenultimate stress irrespective of its structure.
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