ACCENTS

Distinctive manner of oral expression

Example: "He couldn't suppress his contemptuous accent"

• speech pattern

• pronunciation  17

• drawl  9

Special importance or significance

Example: "The red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"

• emphasis  15

• grandness  11
• importance  16

• focus  10
• stress  6

The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people

Example: "The immigrants spoke an odd dialect of english"

• dialect  10
• idiom  8

• non-standard speech

• eye dialect
• patois  8

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

Example: "He put the stress on the wrong syllable"

• emphasis  15
• stress  6

• inflection  15
• prosody  13

• accentuation  16
• pitch accent
• tonic accent
• word accent
• • word stress
  • sentence stress
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A diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation

• accent mark

• diacritic  14
• diacritical mark

• stress mark
• acute  7
• acute accent
• ague  5
• • grave  9
  • grave accent
  • double acute accent
  • hungarumlaut
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