In phonology, barytonesis, or recessive accent, is the shift of accent from the last or following syllable to any non-final or preceding syllable of the stem, as in John Donne's poetic line: but éxtreme sense hath made them desperate, the Balto-Slavic Pedersen's law and Aeolic Greek barytonesis.[1] The opposite, the accent shift to the last syllable is called oxytonesis.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Vijayakumar, Anand. Montano, Lina (ed.). "Recessive accent". Literary Dictionary. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2019 - via Answers.com.
2. ^ Lubotsky, A. M. (1988). The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European. Brill Publishers. p. 51\. ISBN 90-04-08835-0.

## External links[edit]

* The dictionary definition of barytonesis at Wiktionary

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