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also some pitch-accent languages in which every word has an accent. One feature shared between pitch-accent languages and stress-accent languages is demarcativeness:...

Greek accent is believed to have been a melodic or pitch accent. In Ancient Greek, one of the final three syllables of each word carries an accent. Each...

Sezer-type accent on whole word. Compound numerals are accented like one word or separately depending on speaker. Certain adverbs take initial accent: nerede...

vary concurrently with accent, the word "accent" may refer specifically to the differences in pronunciation, whereas the word "dialect" encompasses the...

of the accent for a given word may vary between dialects. For instance, the word for "river" is [ka.waꜜ] in the Tokyo dialect, with the accent on the...

words are oxytone (accented on the last syllable). Place-names are not oxytone: Anádolu (Anatolia), İstánbul. Most place names are accented on their first...

tones, often described as pitch accents, or tonal word accents. They are called acute and grave accent, accent 1 and accent 2. The actual realization of...

/z/). The Persian word-accent has been described as a stress accent by some, and as a pitch accent by others. In fact, the accented syllables in Persian...

acute accent) has a rising melody. One word which does not conform is the first word ὅσον hóson, where the music has a low note despite the acute accent. Another...

Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...

or group of speakers Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase Pitch accent, prominence signaled...

practice, it replaces an acute accent in the last syllable of a word when that word is followed immediately by another word. The grave and circumflex have...

particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence...

into account syllable structure, phonetic changes in derived words, and word accent are reliable for most English words. Moreover, standard English spelling...

unrelated word "petal" to an American. For a summary of the differences between accents, see Sound correspondences between English accents. English dialects...

the smallest segment of sound that can be theoretically isolated by word accent and boundary markers; on the orthographic level as a segment indicated...

A Baltimore accent, also known as Baltimorese and sometimes humorously spelled Bawlmerese or Ballimorese, is an accent or sub-variety of Delaware Valley...

problem-solving, learning, and discovery. The accent of the English word is on the second syllable, following Latin rules of accent, which require that a penult (next-to-last...

following correspondences: the common Turkic -a- in the first syllable of the word in Chuvash correspond to -u- and -o-. Comparison table In modern times, in...

see Wikipedia Media help. The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a nickname for various accents of English that are perceived as blending...