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 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...