Emphasis

Of prosody.   May also be referred to as accent and stress.

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable".

This concept's ID is @1~37851

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  • accentuation 0 facts

    The use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase...

  • tonic accent 0 facts

    Emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness.

  • word stress 0 facts

    The distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word.

  • sentence stress 0 facts

    The distribution of stresses within a sentence.