extrametricality

English

Etymology

From extra- +‎ metrical +‎ -ity.

Noun

extrametricality (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The situation where a particular segment or prosodic unit of a word may be ignored for the purposes of determining the stresses in the word's pronunciation.

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