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El acento latino según los antiguos

1990; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 58; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/emerita.1990.v58.i2.544

1988-8384

Xaverio Ballester,

Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

An analysis of the ancient testimonies concerning the Latin accent reveals the meaning of the terminology used by the ancient Roman authors. The absence of accent, non accent, was called «grave». «Circumflex» was used to mean the accent located on the first mora of a long vowel (falling accent). «Acute» had three meanings: 1) any kind of accent, 2) the accent on a short vowel, 3) the accent on the second mora of a long vowel (level accent).