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Stress on the last syllable of a word, like "correct" or "reward" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, an oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; from the Ancient Greek: ὀξύτονος, oxýtonos, 'sharp-sounding'[citation needed]) is a word with the stress on the last syllable,[1]: 118 such as the English words correct and reward.
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It contrasts with a paroxytone, stressed on the penultimate (second-last) syllable, and a proparoxytone, stressed on the antepenultimate (third-last) syllable.
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