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Grave Accent : Phonetics and Phonology Terms
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n. The diacritic, used in various orthographies and transcriptions for a variety of purposes. It was first used in Ancient Greek to mark a tone sandhi variant in that language. In French, represents a vowel quality distinct from both and In Italian,...
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Grave Accent [Lat. Gravis ‘Heavy’] : Language and Linguistics
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1 Superscript diacritic serving several purposes. It indicates syllable stress in Italian and accentuated Bulgarian texts. In French a distinction is drawn between è for [ε] and é for [e]; graphemically, grave accent is issued to...
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The grave accent ( ` ) is a diacritical mark used in written Catalan, French, Greek until 1982 (polytonic orthography), Italian, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Welsh, and other languages. The word grave is derived from the...


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