English Explanatory Dictionary

extrametricality

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

extrametricality

Etymology

From extra- + metrical + -ity.

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