noun
- Plural of isobarism; instances or cases of isobarism, a linguistic phenomenon in which words or phrases have the same stress pattern or metrical structure.
Usage: technical; linguistics; rare
Examples
- The study of isobarisms helps linguists understand patterns in poetic meter.
- Isobarisms are particularly relevant in the analysis of classical Greek and Latin verse.
- Scholars identified several isobarisms in the manuscript's rhythmic structure.