phoneticsAccent has various domains: the word, the phrase, and the sentence. Word accent (also called word stress, or lexical stress) is part of the characteristic way in which a language is pronounced. Given a particular language system, word accent may be fixed, or predictable ( e.g., in French, where it occurs regularly at the end of words, or in Czech, where it occurs initially), or it may be...
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