weak form Definition In English

Examples of weak form

• The weak forms are used in the presence of a definite or possessive determiner, while the strong ones are used in other situations.

• In highly formal registers with exaggeratedly careful enunciation, weak forms may be avoided.

• Most mixed verbs are originally strong verbs that have replaced some strong forms with weak forms.

• Weak forms include the view that language is necessary for the acquisition of many human concepts and the view that language can serve to scaffold human thought processes.

• This could involve, for instance, avoiding the use of their local idiomatic language and of certain pronunciation features such as weak forms.

• There are several aspects of auxiliaries with strong and weak forms which are problematic, and which a polysystemic analysis can explain.

• Features related to stress received great emphasis: word stress, weak forms and intonation.

• In the case of most words with such alternative forms, the weak form is much more common (since it is relatively rare for function words to receive prosodic stress).