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  2. Stress in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    All Spanish words have at least one stressed syllable when the words are used in isolation. The word para can be a verb (the singular pronoun form of "stop") or a preposition (in order to, for). When words are used in a phrase, the stress may be dropped depending on the part of speech. Para el coche can mean "stop the car" if the stress remains ...

  3. Á - Wikipedia

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    In Spanish, á is an accented letter. There is no alphabetical or phonological difference between a and á; both sound like /a/, both are considered the same letter, and both have the same value in the Spanish alphabetical order. The accent indicates the stressed syllable in words with irregular stress patterns.

  4. Spanish orthography - Wikipedia

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    Ortografía de la lengua española (2010). Spanish orthography is the orthography used in the Spanish language.The alphabet uses the Latin script.The spelling is fairly phonemic, especially in comparison to more opaque orthographies like English, having a relatively consistent mapping of graphemes to phonemes; in other words, the pronunciation of a given Spanish-language word can largely be ...

  5. Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    Spanish dialects and varieties; Stress in Spanish; RFE Phonetic Alphabet – phonetic transcription system for Iberian languages, proposed by Tomás Navarro Tomás and adopted by Centro de Estudios Históricos for use in its journal Revista de Filología Española (whence its name)

  6. Category:Spanish phonology - Wikipedia

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    RFE Phonetic Alphabet; S. Stress in Spanish; Y. Yeísmo This page was last edited on 6 October 2020, at 16:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...

  7. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    That is, if a word is written without an accent mark, the stress is on the penult if the last letter is a vowel, n, or s, but on the final syllable if the word ends in any other letter. However, as in Greek, the acute accent is also used for some words to distinguish various syntactical uses (e.g. té 'tea' vs. te a form of the pronoun tú 'you ...

  8. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  9. Ñ - Wikipedia

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    The replacement of ñ with another letter alters the pronunciation and meaning of a word or name, in the same manner that replacing any letter in a given word with another one would. For example, Peña is a common Spanish surname and a common noun that means "rocky hill"; it is often anglicized as Pena , changing the name to the Spanish word ...