extrametricality
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English
Etymology
From extra- + metrical + -ity.
Noun
extrametricality (uncountable)
- (linguistics) The situation where a particular segment or prosodic unit of a word may be ignored for the purposes of determining the stresses in the word's pronunciation.
Translations
situation where certain segments of a word are irrelevant to its stress structure
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