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SOME PRE-HISTORIC CHANGES

Enclitics and Proclitics

§ 63. In all such phrases the unaccented words that come after the accented syllable are said to be Enclitic (me and with it in the first two phrases): those that come before it are called Proclitic (be in be quíet).

Stress Accent

§ 64. But there are two ways in which this prominence of a syllable can be made audible in speech.

The first is by pronouncing the accented syllable with greater force than the rest, as we do in English. This is called a Stress Accent, or an Exspiratory Accent, because it depends on the force of our exspiration.

Musical Accent

§ 65. But in some languages the Accented syllable is pronounced not necessarily with more force, but upon a higher note than the others, the Vocal Edges (§§ 2427) being more tightly stretched while the Sonant part of that syllable is being made. This is called a Tone Accent, or Musical Accent.

In Ancient Greek, in Sanskrit, and in the latest period of pro-ethnic Indo-European this Musical accent prevailed. It still survives in Lithuanian, which in this and some other respects is the most primitive of the spoken languages of modern Europe. But in some period earlier than the latest of the undivided Indo-