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The Latin accent: a restatement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

W. Sidney Allen
W. Sidney Allen
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The traditional account of the position of the Latin accent is well known, both from ancient sources (e.g. Quintilian i.5.30) and from modern text-books – e.g. Kent (1932: § 66): ‘Latin developed an accent depending upon the quantity of the penultimate syllable, as follows: A long penult was accented, as in pepérci, inimtcus; but if the penult was short, the antepenult received the accent, as in extstimō, cōnfíciunt, ténebrae. Disyllables were necessarily accented on the penult, as in tégō, tóga.’

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , September 1969 , pp. 193 - 203
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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