accent
Noun
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is a type of: pronunciation - the manner in which someone utters a wordsubtypes: drawl - a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowelssame as: speech pattern
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is a type of: grandness, importance - a prominent statussame as: emphasis
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domain member usage:
- bang, spang - leap, jerk, bang
- euphonious - (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident
- forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards - at or to or toward the front
is a type of: non-standard speech - speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech communitysubtypes:- eye dialect - the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker
- patois - a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard
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is a type of: inflection, prosody - the patterns of stress and intonation in a languagesubtypes:
- accentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance
- pitch accent, tonic accent - emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
- word accent, word stress - the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
- sentence stress - the distribution of stresses within a sentence
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referred to in: language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbolsis a type of: diacritic, diacritical mark - a mark added to a letter to indicate a special pronunciationsubtypes:
- stress mark - a mark indicating the stress on a syllable
- acute, acute accent, ague - a mark placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
- grave, grave accent - a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
same as: accent mark
Verb
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subtypes:
- background, downplay, play down - understate the importance or quality of
- bring out, set off - direct attention to, as if by means of contrast
- re-emphasise, re-emphasize - emphasize anew
- bear down - pay special attention to
- topicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence
- point up - emphasize, especially by identification
- drive home, press home, ram home - make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something
- emphasise, emphasize, underline, underscore - give extra weight to (a communication)
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is a type of: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say, sound out - speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain waysame as: accentuate, stress
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