(1) In these dialects many words end in a consonant but they cannot be seen as an apocope of an Italian word.(2) In literature apocope is confined to poetry, but in the prose inscriptions of the dialects it is frequent.(3) He was employing a figure of speech, the apocope , which snips off the last part of a word.(4) Cross-linguistically, vowels that undergo apocope usually follow the stressed syllable; apocope in Greek, however, often appears to occur in vowels that precede accented syllables.(5) The phrase joins two apocopes , a figure that kills the last part of a word.
