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stress-accent

stress-accent is the attributive form of stress accent.

Meaning of stress accent

Noun

stress accent (plural stress accents)

  1. A method or application of realizing phonological prominence of a segment phonetically by loudness or duration.

Forms of stress-accent

pluralstress-accents

Questions about stress-accent

What is stress-accent the attributive form of?
Stress-accent is the attributive form of stress accent.

Words near stress-accent in the dictionary

  1. stress puppy
  2. stress test
  3. stress tests
  4. stress timing
  5. stress wood
  6. stress-accent
  7. stress-accents
  8. stress-free
  9. stress-timed
  10. stress-wise
  11. stressability

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