1 In the narrow sense, a suprasegmental feature which, together with pitch, duration, and sonority, makes up the prominence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, and sentences. Articulatory characteristic ( articulation): increased muscular activity....

n. 1. (also tonic stress, accent, pitch accent) Prominence attached to a single syllable in a single word of a complete sentence in an unmarked style of pronunciation - in English, normally to the last lexical item: Janet loves it vs. Janet loves her...

In the study of suprasegmental features, a term encompassing stress2, duration, and tone. These features are always present to some degree in all utterances; the prominence of a unit is therefore relative to that of other...

n. The presence within a single word, especially in isolation but usually also in connected speech, of stress on some particular syllable or syllables. Word stress is characteristic of stress languages like English and...

In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a word. The term is also used for similar patterns of phonetic prominence inside syllables. The word accent is sometimes also used with this...