ACCENTUAL HIATUS: CHARACTERISTICS AND EXAMPLES - LITERATURE - 2025

The accentual hiatus occurs when a stressed closed vowel and an unstressed open vowel are combined in any order (mine, corn). This combination always carries an accent on the closed vowel, regardless of whether it is required by the general rules of stress. This occurs even if there is an ax inserted (owl, vehicle).

A hiatus is the meeting of two contiguous vowels within a word, but belonging to different syllables. This can occur in the case of three specific sequences: two different open vowels (a, e, o), two equal open or closed vowels or any combination of closed vowel (i, u) stressed and unstressed open vowel.

Examples of accent hiatus

It is precisely in the latter case that the accentual hiatus occurs. In this sense, a stressed vowel is one that is pronounced with the greatest intensity or voice force.

This is the core of the stressed syllable (the most prominent in a word). Such is the case of the i in the word bisyllable cold (cold - o). All other vowels - and other syllables - are unstressed.

characteristics

The accentual hiatus breaks the diphthong; that is, it divides the syllable in two. It should be noted that a diphthong is a sequence of two vowels that are pronounced in the same syllable. Instead, the hiatus implies that the contiguous vowels are in different syllables.

Now, the sequences where an accentual hiatus occurs are made up of: aí, eí, oí, aú, eú, oú, ía, íe, ío, úa, úe and úo.

As already mentioned, the letter ax inserted in these sequences does not prevent the accent hiatus from occurring. Therefore, this also occurs in there, hey, ohi, ahú, ehú, ohú, íha, íhe, ího, úha, úhe and úho.

Some of these combinations are more common than others. For example, ía can be found in the conjugations of the copreterite of verbs ending in er or ir (knew, ate, persecuted).

The oú combination, on the other hand, is much less common. This can be observed in mohúr (gold coin of ancient English India), noumenon (object of pure rational knowledge) and Finnoúgrio (relative to the Finns and other Uralic-speaking peoples).

On the other hand, within expressions of the same sign it is common for a hiatus to become a diphthong and vice versa. In this way, in the word I meet there is an accentual hiatus (sequence eú). However, in the word meeting there is a diphthong.

Examples of accent hiatus

To exemplify the accentual hiatus, its occurrence in the words of several fragments has been highlighted. Most of these fragments belong to the work The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. In the case of úe, éu and oú, other reference works were taken.

Hiatus

"Don Quixote is not pod ed upright on the ass and occasionally gave a sigh, that put ed in the sky, so again forced the peasant to ask what ailed him he sent ed; and it seems only that the devil reminded him of the stories adapted to his events… "

Hiatus

“Take your mercy, Mr. Licentiate; roc fE this room, is not here any magician of the many who have these books, and we enchant in penalty we want to give them throwing them in the world. "

Hiatus io

“And it is to be known that Sancho Panza had thrown over the roe deer and the mess of arms, to serve as a pastry chef, the bocací tunic painted with flames of fire that they dressed him in the duke's castle the night he returned in yes Altisidora… "

Hiatus úa

“That afternoon they took Don Quixote out for a walk, not armed, but dressed in a tawny cloth sloop, which could make the same yelo sweat at that time. They ordered with their servants that they entertained Sancho, so that they would not let him leave the house. "

Hiatus

“ Assess the superficial tissues overlying and lateral to the upper and lower poles of the sacroiliac joint. ADEC ue depth of touch as necessary to evaluate the different layers of tissue. " (American Osteopathic Association Fundamentals of Osteopathic Medicine, 2006)

Hiatus uo

“And of the tortolilla widow / the sentible lullaby, the sad song / of the envied owl, with the cry / of the entire infernal black gang, / go out with the suffering soul outside, / mixed in a sound, in such a way, / let all the senses be confused, / because the cruel pain that is found in me / to call it calls for new ways. "

Hiatus there

"From here will draw my bones, when the sky is served discover me, I picked clean, white and r aí two of my good Dapple with them, where perhaps he will cast to see who we are…"

Hiatus ei

“ Don Quixote did not stop laughing at the simplicity of his squire; and thus he declared that might well complain as and when wanted, without wins or her, which hitherto had l Ei do anything to the contrary in the order of knighthood. "

Hiatus I heard

“So, while the two of them were calm and in the shade, a voice came to their ears, which, without accompanying it, are from some other instrument, sounded sweetly and delightfully.

Because although it is often said that shepherds with extreme voices are found in the jungles and fields, they are more expensive by poets than truths; and even more so when they realized that what I heard them sing were verses, not by rustic cattlemen, but by discreet courtiers. "

Hiatus still

"And he wanted his good fortune to come to fall at the feet of Rocinante, who aú n had not raised. Where it is easy to see the fury with crushing stakes placed in rustic and angry hands"

Hiatus eu

“This procedure is widely used, nowadays, in the well-known Mixes, which gather pieces of dance music on a phonographic support, imitating the assembly work of discjokeys. ”(Musical works, composers, performers and new technologies by Raquel Esther de Román Pérez, 2003)

Hiatus oú

“But the admiration is not so great as to exempt itself from pointing out two great misunderstandings about the nature of the Noun. One is the notion of the n où meno as a cause of our perceptions. " (The Works of Modernist Beauty by Esteban Tollinchi, 2004)

References

1. Hiatus. (s / f). Royal Spanish Academy taken from lema.rae.es.
2. Guitart, JM (2004). Sound and meaning: theory and practice of the pronunciation of contemporary Spanish. Washington: Georgetown University Press.
3. Primo, R. (2013). Short spelling, easy writing. Lima: Arsam Editorial.
4. Martínez, JA (2004). Write without mistakes: basic spelling manual. Oviedo: University of Oviedo.
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