extrametricality

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Noun

{{lb|en|linguistics}} The situation where a particular [[segment]] or [[prosodic]] [[unit]] of a [[word]] may be [[ignore]]d for the purposes of determining the [[stress]]es in the word's [[pronunciation]].

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