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Translingual
editSymbol
editˈ
- (IPA) Primary stress.
- (phonetics) A mid floating tone (when the macron is used for vowel length) or a high-mid floating tone (when the macron is used for tone).
Usage notes
edit- (IPA): The stress mark is placed before the stressed syllable. Rarely it may occur immediately before the vowel of the stressed syllable, but this is not standard IPA usage.
- It may be doubled, ⟨ˈˈ⟩, or even tripled for extra stress, e.g. prosodic stress on a word. For English, however, prosodic /ˈˈ/ is typically analyzed as primary stress and written ⟨ˈ⟩, while lexical stress /ˈ/ is analyzed as secondary stress and (along with some non-stressed syllables) written ⟨ˌ⟩.
- Some English dictionaries use ⟨¦⟩ for a syllable that may take either primary or secondary stress (that is, may be lexically stressed or not).
- (tone): When this symbol is used for tone, normally either the language does not have stress, or something else will be used to mark it.