Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
accent [Lat.
accentus, from ad-cantus ‘that which is sung (together with)’]
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, especially due to the articulatory or phonotactic characteristics of one’s native language. ( also applied linguistics, articulatory phonetics, phonotactics)
References
phonetics, phonology
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