1 stress2 2 Diacritic marking stress, tone, or other phonetic modifications e.g. acute ‹ ́›, grave ‹ ̀›, circumflex ‹~› or ‹ˆ›. 3 Idiosyncratic pronunciation of a foreign language,...

In prosody, a rhythmically significant stress on the syllables of a verse, usually at regular intervals. Though the term is often used interchangeably with stress, some prosodists use accent to mean the emphasis determined by normal language usage and...

In linguistics, an accent is a pronunciation characteristic of a particular group of people relative to another group. Accents should not be confused with dialects which are varieties of language differing in vocabulary and syntax as well as...