Editing Syllable (section)

===Accent===
{{Main|Accent (phonetics)}}
Syllable structure often interacts with stress or pitch accent. In [[Latin]], for example, stress is regularly determined by [[syllable weight]], a syllable counting as heavy if it has at least one of the following:
* a long vowel in its [[Syllable nucleus|nucleus]]
* a [[diphthong]] in its nucleus
* one or more [[Syllable coda|codas]]
In each case, the syllable is considered to have two [[Mora (linguistics)|morae]].

The first syllable of a word is the '''initial syllable''' and the last syllable is the '''final syllable'''.

In languages accented on one of the last three syllables, the last syllable is called the [[Ultima (linguistics)|ultima]], the next-to-last is called the [[penult]], and the third syllable from the end is called the antepenult. These terms come from Latin ''{{lang|la|ultima}}'' "last", ''{{lang|la|paenultima}}'' "almost last", and ''{{lang|la|antepaenultima}}'' "before almost last".

In [[Ancient Greek]], there are three [[Greek diacritics|accent marks]] (acute, circumflex, and grave), and terms were used to describe words based on the position and type of accent. Some of these terms are used in the description of other languages.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="2" rowspan="2" |
! colspan="3" | Placement of accent
|-
! Antepenult !! Penult !! Ultima
|-
! rowspan="3" | Type<br>of<br>accent !! Circumflex
| align="center" | — || align="center" | properispomenon || align="center" | perispomenon
|-
! Acute
| align="center" | proparoxytone || align="center" | paroxytone || align="center" | oxytone
|-
! Any
| colspan="2" align="center" | barytone || align="center" | —
|}