NOUN | an accent | accents | |
VERB | to accent | accented | accented accenting | accents | |
SYNO | accent | accent mark | dialect | ... |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
VERB to infinitive | simple past | past participle
present participle | 3rd person
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- There are two different patterns for assigning pitch accent: one for verbs and one for nouns and adjectives.
- Since Modern Greek has a stress accent instead of a pitch accent, the circumflex has been replaced with an acute accent in the modern monotonic orthography.
- In general, the accent after contraction copies the accent before contraction.
- The Yat accent is the most pronounced version of the New Orleans accent and is perceptually similar to a New York accent.
- Dybo's law was the first of the major accent shifts in Proto-Slavic.
- McHugh's native accent is a softer variation of the Edinburgh accent.
- Colognian and other Ripuarian dialects have two pitch accents, commonly called 'Accent 1' and 'Accent 2'.
- The accent "Östgötska" can be distinguished from Standard Swedish just by accent and pronunciation of vowels and sje- and the- sounds, which makes Östgöta accent an eastern variety of the Götaland accent.
- Proto-Slavic masculine "o"-stems with fixed accent on a non-acute root (accent paradigm b) become mobile-accent (accent paradigm c).
- The Vedic accent is generally considered the most archaic, fairly faithfully reflecting the position of the original PIE accent.
- In the later development of the language, the ancient pitch accent was replaced by an intensity or stress accent, making the three types of accent identical, and the [...] sound became silent.
- Accents and unique speech patterns can influence how people are perceived by those to whom they are speaking.
- "Pipkins" was one of the first children's programmes on British TV where the characters had regional accents: Pig had a Birmingham accent; Topov the monkey was a Cockney; Octavia the ostrich had a French accent; Pigeon had an Upper class English accent; Mrs Penguin had a Geordie accent; Uncle Hare had a West Country English accent; Sophie the cat had a non-regional English accent; and Moony the Badger had a Northern Ireland accent.
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