Accent

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Accent is primarily a change of pitch indicating that a certain element in an utterance is more prominent than others. Normally, apart from a pitch change, accent is also accompanied by increased duration and increased amplitude of the accented element. Sentence or utterances may as well have two or more accented elements.

[edit] Example

What did Peter buy?

He bought a BOOK.

[edit] Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

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