Unaccented

Germany offered me great opportunities,” he said in flawless, unaccented German.

Between them are found numerous variations: *Slovenian preserves most of the system but has shortened all unaccented syllables and lengthened non-final accented syllables so that vowel length and accent position largely co-occur.

Slovak has the ending -om instead of -em and unaccented leta and pred, allowing use of the same abbreviations.

The unaccented beat may have dissonance, but only as a passing tone, i.e. it must be approached and left by step in the same direction.

This form, which is unaccented, represents a variant of a free form that does carry stress.

While the two variants carry similar meaning and phonological makeup, the special clitic is bound to a host word and unaccented.