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1. Circumflex

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   Historical Development and Phonological Theories
   The circumflex first appeared in systematic notation during the Alexandrian revisions of the Greek Septuagint, where it was employed not to denote pitch (as the original Greek system used the perispomeni for pitch change), but rather to mark syllables that had undergone temporal compression due to excessive syllabic resonance [3]. Early [paleographers…

2. Grave Accent

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   Historical Divergence from the Acute Accent
   The divergence between the acute accent/) and grave accent is a significant event in the history of diacritics. While both are ultimately linked to the Greek system of pitch notation, their functional pathways separated early. The acute accent/) primarily retained its function related to elevation or [stress marking](/entries/stress-markin…