prestress

present singular third person prestresses · participle present prestressing · participle past prestressed · past prestressed

1. businessTo apply stress to structural components in order to produce a tension that counteracts the loads to which the component is subjected in its designed use.

1. not comparablehuman sciencesBefore a stress (emphasis placed on a syllable of a word).

   Thus, the acute accent is typically characterized by an F₀-maximum in the prestress syllable and an F₀-minimum in the stressed syllable, while for the grave accent the corresponding F₀-maximum occurs in the stressed syllable and the F₀-minimum in the poststress syllable.

   1996, Ann M. Peters, Sven Strömqvist, “The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes”, in James L. Morgan, Katherine Demuth, editors, Signal to Syntax: Bootstrapping From Speech To Grammar in Early Acquisition, New York, NY: Psychology Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 217