Oxytone
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In linguistics, an oxytone (/ˈɒksɪtoʊn/; Template:Langx, Template:Transliteration, Template:Gloss[citation needed]) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the ultimate syllable (that is, the last syllable).[1]: 118 Examples of this in English are the words correct and reward.
It contrasts with paroxytone (on the penultimate — second-to-last — syllable), and proparoxytone (on the antepenultimate — third-to-last — syllable).
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