antepenult

All words stressed on the antepenult take an accent mark.

In this case, secondary stress falls on alternate syllables from the antepenult.

Often when stress would be expected to fall on the antepenult it is shifted to the penult.

If a 4-syllable word has primary stress on the antepenult, there is no secondary stress: pa.rá.

The penult follows the antepenult and precedes the ultima.

The antepenult then dissimilates to H, and all pre-tonic syllables become L, for:

In words of three or more syllables, stress falls either on the penult or the antepenult (third from the end), according to these criteria:

Words with three or more syllables have the stress on the penult only if it has a long vowel, otherwise on the antepenult (p. xii).

Penult and antepenult are abbreviations for paenultima and antepaenultima.

Modern Hebrew, however, has a moderate number of words which are neither 'milra' nor 'mil'el', but are stressed on the antepenult or even further back.

If the penult contains a short vowel in an open syllable, the stress falls on the antepenult: e.g. stá.

If the polysyllabic word is five syllables or more, every odd syllable (leftward) from the antepenult syllable is also assigned secondary stress.

When the vowel in the ultima is short, accent is placed on the antepenult or (if the word is two syllables) the penult.

Penult has the prefix paene "almost", and antepenult has the prefix ante "before".

Sanskrit (and certain other Indo-Aryan languages) use a version of this rule that allowed for placement on the fourth-to-last syllable if the antepenult was light.

The vowels a, e, æ, and o in an open antepenult syllable become long if a semivowel appears in the next syllable:

In polysyllabic words, the primary stress is assigned to the antepenult (third from last) syllable, and the last syllable is assigned secondary stress.

Nonfinal right-aligned trochee weight-to-stress (i.e. stress H penult, else: stress antepenult):

In linguistics, the ultima is the last syllable of a word, the penult is the next-to-last syllable, and the antepenult is third-from-last syllable.

In this lexical domain, stress occurs on the antepenult if the penult is light and the antepenult is heavy, and otherwise on the penult.

Bertoldi & Terracini propose that the common suffix -ara (with stress on the antepenult) was a plural marker, and indicated a connection to Iberian or to the Paleo-Sicilian languages.

As a result many imparisyllabic nouns, i.e. nouns that do not have the same number of syllables in all their inflections, have the accent placed on the next syllable when a syllable is added, if the antepenult is already accented.

A word is called oxytone if it is stressed on its last syllable, paroxytone if stress falls on the syllable before the last (the penult), and proparoxytone if stress falls on the third syllable from the end (the antepenult).

For example, in Czech, Finnish, Icelandic and Hungarian the stress almost always comes on the first syllable of a word; in Quechua and Polish the stress is almost always on the penultimate syllable; while in Macedonian it comes on the antepenult (third syllable from the end).