{{Short description|Movement of stress from a final syllable}} In phonology, '''barytonesis''', or '''recessive accent''', is the shift of accent from the last or following syllable to any non-final or preceding syllable of the stem, as in John Donne's poetic line: ''but éxtreme sense hath made them desperate'', the Balto-Slavic Pedersen's law and Aeolic Greek barytonesis.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.answers.com/topic/recessive-accent |work=Literary Dictionary |title=Recessive accent |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182216/http://www.answers.com/topic/recessive-accent |archive-date=3 March 2016 |access-date=19 July 2019 |via=Answers.com |first=Anand |last=Vijayakumar |editor-first=Lina |editor-last=Montano |url-status=live }}</ref> In Biblical Hebrew grammar, barytonesis is called {{lang|he|נסוג אחור|rtl=yes}} ({{translit|he|nasog akhor}}, literally 'receding backwards').<ref>Weinkop, Yitzhak, ''[http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=21687&st=&pgnum=1&hilite= דרכי הנסיגה]'', Amsterdam, 1782.</ref>
The opposite, the accent shift to the last syllable is called oxytonesis.<ref>{{cite book |title=The System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European |first=A. M. |last=Lubotsky |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xccUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA52 |page=51 |isbn=90-04-08835-0 |year=1988 |publisher=Brill Publishers}}</ref>
==See also== * Glossary of sound laws in the Indo-European languages
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Category:Sound laws Category:Figures of speech Category:Phonology Category:Stress (linguistics)
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