Word accent in which the change of pitch is distinctive, as in Serbo-Croatian and in Swedish (e.g. tanken with falling pitch on the first syllable ‘tank,’ with falling-rising pitch on the first syllable ‘thought’). In contrast...

...

Pitch accent is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of stress and limited tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this accent or the way it is realized can give...