accent

ac*cent

noun

{bc}an effort in speech to stress one syllable over adjacent syllables

ac*cent

verb

{bc}to give special attention or prominence to (something)

accent mark

noun

{bc}{sx|accent||4a}

tonic accent

noun

{bc}relative phonetic prominence (as from greater stress or higher pitch) of a spoken syllable or word

sentence stress

noun

{bc}the manner in which stresses are distributed on the syllables of words assembled into sentences

word stress

noun

{bc}the manner in which stresses are distributed on the syllables of a word