Accent may refer to: Look up accent, accentuate, or accentuation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Accent (sociolinguistics), way of pronunciation particular...
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specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Accents may be written into...
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The Hyundai Accent (Korean: 현대 엑센트), or Hyundai Verna (현대 베르나) is a subcompact car produced by Hyundai. In Australia, the first generation models carried...
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Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...
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meaning of how ⟨ ⟩, | |, / /, and [ ] are used here, see this page. The grave accent (◌̀) (/ɡreɪv/ GRAYV or /ɡrɑːv/ GRAHV) is a diacritical mark used to varying...
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see Wikipedia Media help. The Mid-Atlantic accent, or Transatlantic accent, is a nickname for various accents of English that are perceived as blending...
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predominant language. The United Kingdom has a wide variety of accents, and no single "British accent" exists. This article provides an overview of the numerous...
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sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be identified...
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different from their native accent, without having acquired it in the perceived accent's place of origin. Foreign accent syndrome usually results from...
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American English (redirect from American accents)
American accent. The sound of American English continues to evolve, with some local accents disappearing, but several larger regional accents having emerged...
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Diacritic (redirect from Accent mark)
diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from...
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The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is endemic to the Old World. This small group of closely related passerines are all...
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Accent reduction, also known as accent modification or accent neutralization, is a systematic approach for learning or adopting a new speech accent. It...
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Scouse (redirect from Liverpool accent)
English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive...
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In English poetry, accent refers to the stressed syllable of a polysyllabic word, or a monosyllabic word that receives stress because it belongs to an...
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Received Pronunciation (redirect from Oxford accent)
§ Brackets and transcription delimiters. Received Pronunciation (RP) is the accent traditionally regarded as the standard and most prestigious form of spoken...
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for the accent that associate it with more specific locations in the New York City area, such as Bronx accent, Brooklyn accent, Queens accent, Long Island...
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Southern American English (redirect from Southern United States accent)
more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners. In terms of accent, its most innovative forms include southern varieties of Appalachian English...
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/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables...
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Greek diacritics (redirect from Grave accent rule)
(tónos) 'accent') is the standard system for Ancient Greek and Medieval Greek. The acute accent (´), the circumflex (ˆ), and the grave accent (`) indicate...
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Accent lighting focuses light on a particular area or object. It is often used to highlight art or other artifacts. Common types of accent lights include...
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West Country English (redirect from West Country Accent)
Speech example An example of a female with a mostly rhotic accent with a background in Bristol and Wiltshire (Sophie Anderson). Problems playing this file...
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A Southern accent term usually refers to either: Southern American English English in Southern England Southern Accent (newspaper), the weekly student-run...
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⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A Boston accent is a local accent of Eastern New England English, native specifically to the city...
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An accent wall or feature wall is an interior wall whose design differs from that of the other walls in the room. The accent wall's color can simply be...
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A Baltimore accent, also known as Baltimorese and sometimes humorously spelled Bawlmerese or Ballimorese, is an accent or sub-variety of Delaware Valley...
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British English (redirect from Alderney Accent)
position between several major accent regions, it has become a source of various accent developments. In Northampton the older accent has been influenced by overspill...
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Republic of Ireland. Like Scottish and most North American accents, almost all Irish accents preserve the rhoticity which has been lost in the dialects...
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Stress (linguistics) (redirect from Phenomenal accent)
intensified properties, it is called stress accent or dynamic accent; English uses what is called variable stress accent. Since stress can be realised through...
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The Accent 26, also called the Albin Accent and the Shipman Accent, is a Swedish sailboat that was designed by Peter Norlin as an International Offshore...
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