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Meaning of unstressability | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The quality of being unstressable.

uncountable

Examples

“Hence by saying that the first part of the schwa is empty T claims to explain its unstressability.”
“An explanation for the general ability of French clitics to receive stress might be that French, unlike the other Romance languages, only has phrasal stress, and that the alleged unstressability of clitics only holds for lexical stress.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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