extrametricality

Questions

What does extrametricality mean?

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.

Where does extrametricality come from?

From extra- + metrical + -ity.

How to pronounce extrametricality

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