All English dictionaries show the accented syllables in their pronunciation keys, usually with an acute accent mark (´). See also Syllable. ...
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Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent...
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When a word has more than one syllable, one of the syllables is always a little louder than the others. The syllable with the louder stress is the accented syllable. It may seem that the placement of accents in words is often random or accidental, but these are some rules that usually work.
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・ 1. If you know how to pronounce the word, say it out loud. You will say the accented syllable a little ... ・ 2. If you do not know the word, look in the dictionary. It will show the accented syllable either the ...
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Key Phrase page for accented syllable: Books containing the phrase accented syllable ... Featured Books for "accented syllable" ... See all pages with references to "accented syllable".
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Amongst the several dimensions into which prosody can be unfolded, the accented syllable realisation brings the basic problem of producing a set of comprehensive rules for accurate control of the acoustic realisation of the syllable parameters, which remains to be solved.
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One of them refers to a method of inserting accented vowels (and some other characters) in the NWC lyrics editor. For that, you can choose the character from a character map utility (there are other ways, too). The other method refers to placing accented vowels in a web page (HTML).
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[Subentry of accented, syllable] ... Synonym(s): nuclear syllable, stressed syllable, tonic syllable ... Antonym(s): unaccented syllable, unstressed syllable...
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