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Tonic accent may refer to: Accent (music) Pitch accent (intonation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tonic accent. If
Tonic_accent
Emphasis on a note
dynamic accent or stress accent is an emphasis using louder sound or stronger sound; typically, most pronounced on the attack of the sound. A tonic accent is
Accent_(music)
Latin letter I with acute accent
"I"/"i" carrying an acute accent; it represents an /i/ carrying the tonic accent. Instead of it, the "i" with a grave (ì, Ì) is almost always used (e
Í
International auxiliary language
viduas, il amaria. Exceptions to this show the placing of the tonic accent with an accent: veritá, café. The reflexive, third person singular pronoun (himself
Mondial_language
Latin letter E with acute accent
variant of E carrying an acute accent; it represents an /e/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the word except in dictionaries
É
Method of reconstructing an earlier state in a language's history
from agreements among the Romance languages on the location of tonic accent: the tonic accent in Latin fell three syllables before the end of any word with
Internal_reconstruction
Latin letter U with acute accent
stress. Ú/ú is a variant of U carrying an acute accent; it represents an /u/ carrying the tonic accent. It is used only if it is the last letter of the
Ú
Latin letter R with tilde
it indicates the long tonic accent. Therefore, the R with a tilde indicates an /r/ that is part of a diphthong with a tonic accent. It is not to be confused
R̃
Japanese language feature
question has no nucleus. An unaccented phrase can be of any length. Accented/Tonic (起伏式・起伏型・有核型, kifukushiki/kifukugata/yūkakugata; lit
Japanese_pitch_accent
Linguistic emphasis on syllables or words
its various meanings). A prominent syllable or word is said to be accented or tonic; the latter term does not imply that it carries phonemic tone. Other
Stress_(linguistics)
Line in Dante's Inferno
but a sword."). This interpretation implies a transposition of the tonic accent, for metrical purposes, from the 11th to the 10th syllable, from "aleppé"
Pape_Satàn,_pape_Satàn_aleppe
Dialect of Breton
generally not pronounced (nor is it in Cornouaillais and Vannetais) The tonic accent is very strong (for example, bihan is pronounced /b:in/) Certain constructions
Trégorrois_Breton_dialect
Crescent-shaped linguistic zone in France
which can potentially bring out the tonic accent. Despite that phenomenon, there are still traces of a mobile tonic accent, which can fall either on the second-last
Croissant_(linguistic_zone)
Alphabet of the Occitan language
alphabet. The grave accent (accent grèu) _̀ found on à, è, ò, indicates stressed, close vowels.[citation needed] The acute accent (accent agut) _́ found on
Occitan_alphabet
Language isolate of north-central Tanzania
or ⟨aha⟩ where they are due to an elided /ɦ/. A tonic syllable may be written with an acute accent, ⟨á⟩, but is generally not marked.[citation needed]
Hadza_language
Pronunciation of a latent word-final consonant immediately before a following vowel sound
in fact understands /ˈɡʁɑ̃.tɔm/, a continuous group of phonemes whose tonic accent signals that they form a unit. It is possible to make a division as /ɡʁɑ̃/
Liaison_(French)
Constructed international auxiliary language
original on 13 August 2015. De Beaufront, L (2004). "Acento tonika" [Tonic accent] (PDF). Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di Ido. pp. 11–12. Archived (PDF)
Ido
Museum in Lisbon, Portugal
to which the Museum gratefully acknowledges. At first, it was kept tonic accent in the national universe, being able to be proud of integrating one of
Museu_da_Marioneta
Sanskrit language feature
The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities
Vedic_accent
Venetian dialect of Puebla, Mexico
(mirror) and [ɔ] stòrder (twist); b) the acute accent is used to indicate an undetermined tonic accent c) ‘zh’ is used to indicate the voiceless dental
Chipilo_Venetian_dialect
Dialect of English spoken in Birmingham, England
To a degree, the Brummie accent now extends into some parts of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, but much of the accent within the borough might be
Brummie_dialect
Language created by Kenneth Searight in 1935
names are not altered. Sona is not a tonal language and therefore the tonic accent is evenly distributed throughout speech, such as Japanese and French
Sona_(constructed_language)
Subcompact car produced by Kia (1999–2023)
Europe and in 2006 in North America, sharing its platform with the Hyundai Accent, a subcompact manufactured by its sister Hyundai Motor Company in South
Kia_Rio
System of musical notation
Tonic sol-fa (or tonic sol-fah) is a pedagogical technique for teaching sight-singing, invented by Sarah Anna Glover (1786–1867) of Norwich, England and
Tonic_sol-fa
Traditional dialect of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, US
subsets include Boston accents, Maine accents, and a cultivated or elite accent, sometimes known as a "Boston Brahmin accent" within Boston, that was
Eastern_New_England_English
Change from one tonality to another
and rhythmic: quasi-tonic and modulating dominant on metrically accented beats, prominent pivot chord The quasi-tonic is the tonic of the new key established
Modulation_(music)
Variety of American English
and central New England once spoke the "Yankee dialect", some of whose accent features still remain in Eastern New England today, such as "R-dropping"
New_England_English
Comparison of related international auxiliary languages
Retrieved 19 January 2012. De Beaufront, L (2004). "Acento tonika" [Tonic accent] (PDF). Kompleta Gramatiko Detaloza di Ido. pp. 11–12. Archived (PDF)
Comparison between Esperanto and Ido
Comparison_between_Esperanto_and_Ido
End of a musical phrase with resolution
suitable for phrase endings in general. Cadences are strong indicators of the tonic or central pitch of a passage or piece. The musicologist Edward Lowinsky
Cadence
giving conferences on Gregorian chant especially on the nature of the tonic accent and his role in the performance of the chant to the monks of Solesmes
Paul_Jausions
South Slavic supradialect or language
system dialects with two tonic accents dialects with four tonic accents similar to that of Shtokavian dialects dialects with four-tonic Shtokavian system dialects
Chakavian
Franconian and German emphasize the same linguistic relationship, placing a tonic accent at the initial of words, in general. On the other hand, the French name
Correspondence of Lorraine toponyms in French and German
Correspondence_of_Lorraine_toponyms_in_French_and_German
Phonological system of New Zealand English
(i.e. the closeness to Received Pronunciation), this article covers the accent as it is spoken by educated speakers, unless otherwise noted. The IPA transcription
New_Zealand_English_phonology
Degree of phonological stress
for details. In Norwegian, the pitch accent is lost from one of the roots in a compound word, but the erstwhile tonic syllable retains the full length (long
Secondary_stress
Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
Such minimal systems are sometimes called pitch accent since they are reminiscent of stress accent languages, which typically allow one principal stressed
Tone_(linguistics)
Common Slavic accent law
Dybo's law, or Dybo–Illich-Svitych's law, is a Common Slavic accent law named after Soviet accentologists Vladimir Dybo and Vladislav Illich-Svitych. It
Dybo's_law
Dialect of Welsh English
and elision and clear articulation unlike other accents in Powys or Swansea. As a more modern accent, it is restricted to the last two to three generations
Abercraf_English
usually close to [ɐ] (without assimilation). In some Western accents [ə] may occur. Post-tonic final unstressed /a/ becomes [ɛ] and/or [ɔ] (phonetically
Stress and vowel reduction in Catalan
Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_Catalan
post-tonic syllable to judge the pitch accent of any given word. If the high tone of the stressed syllable is carried over to the first post-tonic syllable
Serbo-Croatian_phonology
Phonological process
post-tonic /a/ becomes [ɛ] and [ɔ]—usually lower and/or somewhat centralized: [ɛ̞̈] ([æ]) and [ɔ̞̈] ([ɒ])—when the preceding syllable contains tonic open-mid
Catalan_vowel_harmony
The Proto-Slavic accent is the accentual system of Proto-Slavic and is closely related to the accentual system of some Baltic languages (Lithuanian and
Proto-Slavic_accent
System for writing in Spanish
las masas). Spanish uses only the acute accent over any vowel: ⟨á é í ó ú⟩. This accent is used to mark the tonic (stressed) syllable, though it may also
Spanish_orthography
huge demands on the performer in varying a single pattern by changes of accent and touch. Chopin's primary concern in this work is for the widest possible
Étude_Op._10,_No._10_(Chopin)
Oldest surviving complete piece of music
to e (in two sharps). The tonic seems to be a; the cadence is a f♯ e. This piece is … [in] Phrygic (the D mode) with its tonic in the same relative position
Seikilos_epitaph
Sounds and pronunciation of Portuguese
various dialects. A common realization of the word-initial /ʁ/ in the Lisbon accent is a voiced uvular fricative trill [ʀ̝]. In Africa and Asia, the classical
Portuguese_phonology
Systematic organization of spoken sounds of the Norwegian language
word, the pitch accent is lost on one of the elements of the compound (the one with weaker or secondary stress), but the erstwhile tonic syllable retains
Norwegian_phonology
Arrangement of a song, part of the songwriting process
even if an intro includes chords other than the tonic, it generally ends with a cadence, either on the tonic or dominant chord. The introduction may also
Song_structure
South Slavic language
for a short tonic e, or leave vs. leaving? for a long tonic i, due to the prosody of final stressed syllables in English. General accent rules in the
Serbo-Croatian
Type of musical note
nonchord tone is a pedal point or pedal tone (PD) or note, almost always the tonic or dominant, which is held through a series of chord changes. The pedal
Nonchord_tone
Variety of French spoken in Quebec
nominative case; it is replaced with the subject pronoun ils [i] or the stress/tonic pronoun eux(-autres). However, 'elles' is still used in other cases (ce
Quebec_French
English actor and musician (born 1987)
It's changed my life." For his portrayal of Chuck, he assumed an American accent, based on the character Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Ed_Westwick
Phonology of the English language
speech into tone groups. Tonicity for the placing of the principal accent on a particular syllable of a word, making it the tonic syllable. This is the domain
English_phonology
Chibchan language of southeast Costa Rica
distinction in accented syllables; however, this was not confirmed with more recent investigations. The final syllable of a root is accented (tonic) and is maximally
Bribri_language
Indian actor, producer and politician (born 1982)
starred in a number of critically and commercially successful ventures like Tonic (2021), Projapoti (2022), Bagha Jatin (2023), Pradhan (2023) and many others
Dev_(Bengali_actor)
Gallo-Italic language spoken in Italy
centralized to [ɐ]. Syncope i.e., weakening or dropping of unstressed pro-tonic and post-tonic vowels: /me'luŋ/ > /mə'luŋ/ > /m'luŋ/, same happens in French, and
Piedmontese_language
Latin letter O with grave accent
in "wet". It is used to represent vocalic phonemes /ɔ/ and /ɔː/ in every tonic occurrence to distinguish them from /o/ and /oː/ represented by O, e.g.
Ò
Musical instrument
distinguishing characteristic of this little folk accordion is that it plays the tonic scale (and major chord) on the bellows draw and the dominant on the bellows
Saratovskaya_garmonika
Motor vehicle
2003. It was also sold there as the "Midge", the "Sting", and as the "Ford Tonic". A locally designed pickup based on the Familia front end, called the Rustler
Mazda_Familia
16th-century English poet and politician
of iambic English poetry than the alliterative Native Style: Googe's tonic accents are heavy, the unaccents light; the result is sometimes deliberately
Barnabe_Googe
English actress
October 2022). "REVIEW - Good Luck, Studio - Mercury Theatre". Theatre and Tonic. Retrieved 5 January 2025. Wallis, Rebecca (23 January 2023). "Interview:
Bryony_Corrigan
English actor (born 1968)
Retrieved 28 December 2022. Heritage, Stuart (14 November 2022). "No time for tonic: Daniel Craig shows Bonds just wanna have fun in Taika Waititi vodka advert"
Daniel_Craig
Personal pronoun to denote the interlocutor
Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory. New York: Sarah
You
Phonetic phenomenon
emphasize the information they convey. There is also said to be a natural "tonic stress" that falls on the last stressed syllable of a prosodic unit – for
Stress and vowel reduction in English
Stress_and_vowel_reduction_in_English
speak in English but with an Italian accent. Romani thinks that Darrin is mocking him. Darrin loses the accent and comes up with an excuse. Romani understands
List_of_Bewitched_episodes
Prestige variety of Yue Chinese
by James Dyer Ball in 1883, articulated the provenance of the prestige accent of Cantonese: that of the district of Xiguan (simplified Chinese: 西关; traditional
Cantonese
Constructed language
including: a set of symbols using the seven colours of the rainbow, and using tonic sol-fa to sign the language Solresol can be communicated by using any seven
Solresol
Greek iced coffee drink
water, sugar, ice and milk. The word is often written frappe (without an accent). The frappé was invented in 1957 in Thessaloniki through experimentation
Frappé_coffee
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character
often interpreted as stalking or implying sexual assault. His exaggerated accent, mannerisms, and romantic behavior have also been criticized by some[like
Pepé_Le_Pew
Sour pickled Japanese fruit
systemic toxicity, including hangovers. Green ume extract is used as a tonic in Japan. The citric acid is believed to act as an antibacterial, help to
Umeboshi
Form of Latin script used to write Serbo-Croatian
the grave accent (◌̀) for a short vowel with rising tone, the acute accent (◌́) for long vowel with rising tone, and macron (◌̄) for a non-tonic long vowel
Gaj's_Latin_alphabet
Regional vocabulary
Florida), pop (Inland North, Upper Midwest, and Northwest), coke (South), and tonic (Eastern New England possibility) See also: Names for soft drinks in the
American English regional vocabulary
American_English_regional_vocabulary
Phonology of the Lithuanian language
Only one syllable in the word bears the accent, but exactly which syllable is often unpredictable. Accented syllables are marked with either a falling
Lithuanian_phonology
American comedian and podcaster (born 1984)
fucking chink", followed with a series of Asian stereotypes in a mock Chinese accent, and lashed out at audience members who laughed at Dang's jokes, branding
Tony_Hinchcliffe
American conservative author and commentator (1925–2008)
through his work on the show, he became known for his Northeastern elite accent, articulate discourse, and wide vocabulary. Buckley is widely considered
William_F._Buckley_Jr.
says he always took Gaffney's Blood Tonic when he had a cold. Williams says that one of the ingredients in the tonic is alcohol. Ozzie goes bowling by himself
List of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet episodes
List_of_The_Adventures_of_Ozzie_and_Harriet_episodes
Type of musical composition
the tonality of the common-practice period (i.e. functional harmony and tonic-dominant relationships) is replaced by one or several nontraditional tonal
Neotonality
Christian hymn
with a three-fold Alleluia, sung as a refrain, beginning and ending on the tonic. The first and second lines of each stanza share the same melody, and the
O_filii_et_filiae
Method of chord notation
but may vary slightly in the symbols and conventions. In the system, the tonic note of the song's key is designated as 1, with other numbers representing
Nashville_Number_System
Wu Chinese language variety
the tone of any subsequent (post-tonic) syllables determined by the last of these. In addition, there may be pre-tonic syllables (clitics), which take
Wenzhounese
Bantu language of South Africa and Zimbabwe
tones in a word, but high tone spreads allophonically to a following non-tonic ("low"-tone) syllable.) There are only a few tone patterns in Venda words
Venda_language
centuries. van Wijk's law When *j follows a consonant, it becomes *ь. In post-tonic syllables, the *ь assimilated to the following vowel, lengthening it. Whether
Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
Glossary_of_sound_laws_in_the_Indo-European_languages
Final three piano sonatas by Franz Schubert (1828)
the tonic key (which in this case has already been established). The recapitulation is traditional – staying in the tonic, and emphasizing the tonic minor
Schubert's_last_sonatas
Direct descendants of Vulgar Latin
are word-internal unstressed vowels, i.e. not in the initial, final, or tonic (i.e. stressed) syllable, hence intertonic. Intertonic vowels were the most
Romance_languages
Dialect of Catalan spoken in Mallorca, Spain
and have evolved the system, so that the neutral e has become open /ɛ/ in tonic position. In general, the open e /ɛ/ and the open o /ɔ/, as in Valencian
Mallorcan_dialect
Fictional character from The Simpsons franchise
not a very good bartender, at one time expressing surprise that gin and tonic can be mixed together. The bar is noted for its depressing atmosphere and
Moe_Szyslak
Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon characters
only at the start and end of the cartoon), does not have the upper-class accent or the egotistical bearing of the Coyote. Another crucial difference is
Ralph_Wolf_and_Sam_Sheepdog
Relationships between music and mathematics
value of one (often written 1/1), generally a note which functions as the tonic of the scale. For interval size comparison, cents are often used. There
Music_and_mathematics
Starbucks iced coffee drink
portmanteau of "frappé" (pronounced /fræp/ and also spelled without the accent)—the New England name for a thick milkshake with ice cream, derived from
Frappuccino
1977 studio album by Fleetwood Mac
off Rumours by an act influenced by it, including alternative rock bands Tonic, Matchbox 20, and Goo Goo Dolls; Celtic rock groups The Corrs and The Cranberries;
Rumours_(album)
and radio announcers are chosen for their ability to affect a standard accent. The sound system has not only segments—i.e. vowels and consonants—but also
Standard_Chinese_phonology
Sounds and pronunciation of Catalan
usually close to [ɐ] (without assimilation). In some Western accents [ə] may occur. Post-tonic final unstressed /a/ becomes [ɛ] and/or [ɔ] (phonetically
Catalan_phonology
Romance language
based on the Latin alphabet and makes use of the acute accent, the circumflex accent, the grave accent, the tilde, and the cedilla to denote stress, vowel
Portuguese_language
Keyboard work by Johann Sebastian Bach
harmony: the bass A at bar 60 shifts the accent from the subject's second bar to its first and makes the tonic entry less clear by emphasizing the dominant
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue, BWV 903
Chromatic_Fantasia_and_Fugue,_BWV_903
Proto-Indo-European sound change
account is rejected by Tijmen Pronk. Alexander Nikolaev also rejects the post-tonic *n-loss part of this account but instead posits that asno rule applied to
Asno_law
British actor (1899–1962)
comedies starring his wife Elsa Lanchester, Daydreams, Blue Bottles, and The Tonic (all 1928), which had been specially written for her by H. G. Wells and
Charles_Laughton
British comedian, actress, writer and podcaster
Lloyd, Cariad (19 January 2023). You Are Not Alone (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Tonic. "Cariad Lloyd". Women's Prize. Retrieved 25 August 2026. "British Podcast
Cariad_Lloyd
2013 film by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee
especially when characters walked through it) and Tonic, which enabled artists to sculpt their characters' hair. Tonic also helped animate fur and hair such as
Frozen_(2013_film)
Romance language
is some tonic ⟨e⟩ accentuation, for instance: francès, anglès (IEC) – francés, anglés (AVL). Nevertheless, AVL's standard keeps the grave accent ⟨è⟩, while
Catalan_language
Style of 1950s northeastern USA fashion
Steve McQueen and Paul Newman. Particularly popular were the grey flannel, Tonic, or houndstooth suits, polo shirts, chino pants, Argyle socks, sweater vests
Ivy_League_(clothes)
1808 string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven
grandiosity of the recapitulation for several bars after the establishment of the tonic key allowed Beethoven to heighten expectation of a definitive statement
String Quartet No. 7 (Beethoven)
String_Quartet_No._7_(Beethoven)
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