Accent (1167 bytes)
2: '''Accent''' may refer to—
3: * ''in linguistics'', a [[Accent (linguistics)|method of pronouncing words]] commo...
4: ...c]]. See [[acute accent]] (''' ´ ''') or [[grave accent]] (''' ` ''') for more information.
5: * ''in poetry'', the [[Accent (poetry)|stressed portion]] of a word.
6: ...(music)|pitch]], and [[dynamics (music)|dynamic]] accents.

Boston accent (6424 bytes)
9: The traditional Boston accent is non-[[rhotic]]; in other words, the phoneme \r...
11: In the most traditional and old-fashioned Boston accents, what is in other dialects \Or`\ becomes a low b...
13: ...laced by \Y\ (\bYd\); for many present-day Boston-accent speakers, however, \3`\ is retained. More speaker...
15: The Boston accent possesses both "'''linking r'''" and "'''intrusiv...
17: ...c or partially non-rhotic attempt to change their accent by restoring \r\ to word-final position; occasion...

Yorkshire accent (3252 bytes)
1: ...ences between a Keighley accent and a Scarborough accent - both of which are, in turn, very hard for outsi...
3: The characteristic features of the accent of the region include
18: ... word begins with a vowel], as occurs in a French accent. e.g. "Pack it in!" becomes "Pa-ki-tin!"

Accent Records (1040 bytes)
1: '''Accent Records''' is a Belgian record label started in 1...
3: Artists having recorded for Accent Records include:
24: [http://www.accent-records.be Company website]

Pitch accent (1021 bytes)
1: ''For '''pitch accent''' in [[music]], see: [[accent (music)]].''
3: ...In a ''pitch-accented [[language]]'', there is an accented [[syllable]] or [[mora (linguistics)|mora]], th...
5: ...nged into a [[Vocal stress|stress accent]] (where accented syllables are pronounced more forcefully, as in...
7: See also [[Japanese pitch accent]].
9: ...cent as well. Like Japanese, the position of the accent for a given word in Shanghainese varies due to vo...

Melodic accent (1917 bytes)
1: ...ew [[Europe]]an languages which have a '''melodic accent'''. Others are [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]]...
4: The way this melodic accent is expressed varies quite a lot between different...
6: ...[[duck]]", while ''ande·n'' with the two syllable accent means "the [[spirit]]/[[soul]]".
8: ...h speakers can replicate the one and two-syllable accent by listening to how they pronounce the two versio...
10: ...]] on the first syllable, while the "two-syllable accent" is expressed as ''a rise and a fall'' of the ton...

Accent (poetry) (902 bytes)
1: '''Accent''' in [[poetry]] refers to the ''stressed'' porti...
11: ...ast 'earth' for [[emphasis]]. Of course, where to accent in poetry can be of hot [[debate]].

Acute accent (8144 bytes)
1: The '''acute accent''' (''´'') is a [[diacritic]] mark used in ...
6: ...nch]] and [[Italian language|Italian]], the acute accent is used only on the letter ''e'', where it change...
11: ...unless indicated otherwise by the use of an acute accent on the stressed vowel.
13: ...Spanish]] and [[Dutch language|Dutch]], the acute accent is used to disambiguate certain words which would...
15: In Dutch, the acute accent can also be used to emphasize an individual word ...

Grave accent (5374 bytes)
1: The '''grave accent''' (''' ` ''') is a [[diacritic]] mark used in wr...
5: ...ed for Modern Greek has replaced it with an acute accent.
7: In French, the grave accent has two uses. On the letter ''e'' it marks the d...
9: ...letter ''a'' is the only one that takes the grave accent but not the acute.
11: In Welsh, the accent is used to denote a short vowel sound in a word w...

Accent (linguistics) (1244 bytes)
1: '''Accents''' mark speakers as a member of a group by their...
3: Accent should not be confused with [[dialect]] which is ...
8: *[[Distinguishing accents in English]]
10: A ''foreign accent'' is marked by the [[phonology]] of other languag...
12: ...Non-native pronunciations of English]], [[Foreign accent syndrome]].

Accent (music) (757 bytes)
1: ... in a pitch accent, and dynamics, such as dynamic accents.
3: ...tissimo]], [[normal]], [[strong]], and [[legato]] accents. They are represented by, respectively, a dot (....
7: [[Image:Notation accents.PNG|frame|Notation accents.]]

Japanese pitch accent (6317 bytes)
1: ...ve a [[pitch accent]], though the position of the accent for a given word varies among them. As for instan...
3: The accent rules in standard Japanese (''hyōjungo'') ar...
5: # If the accent is on the first syllable, then the pitch starts h...
6: ...oes down suddenly. A native speaker will hear the accented vowel as higher than the rest, even though the ...
7: ...e describe their sound as "flat" (''heibon'') or "accentless".

Accent programming language (250 bytes)
1: '''Accent''' was a very high level interpreted [[programmin...
3: Accent is strongly typed and supports remote function ca...

West Country accent (6522 bytes)
1: ...on to the towns from other regions means that the accents are now only commonly encountered in rural areas...
3: ...mpshire and Isle of Wight dialects (as opposed to accents) are today essentially extinct.
5: ...arly considered to be only [[Accent (linguistics)|accents]], academically the regional variations are cons...
8: The characteristic features of the accent of the region include:
25: ...ed on their regional accents put the West Country accent high up, under southern [[Scottish English]] but ...

East Anglian Accent (735 bytes)
1: ... the name generally given to the group of English accents used by the majority of people in the rural east...
3: The characteristic features of the accent of the region include

Foreign accent syndrome (2215 bytes)
1: '''Foreign accent syndrome''' is a rare [[medical condition]] that ...
3: ...ounced [[syllable]]s, causing the speech to sound accented.
5: ... sounded like a strong [[German language|German]] accent and was shunned by her fellow Norwegians.
7: ...rmore, many [[physician]]s have dismissed foreign accent syndrome, calling it [[psychology|psychological]]...
10: ...ll NJ, Bladon RA, Bamford JM. ''A case of foreign accent syndrome, with follow-up clinical, neuropsycholog...

Double acute accent (1210 bytes)
1: '''Double acute accent''' is a [[diacritic]] mark used in [[Hungarian al...
3: ...t]] ''([[á]], [[é]], [[í]], [[ó]], [[ú]])''. (The accented ''a'' and ''e'' is not really just a longer ver...
32: [[fr:Double accent aigu]]

Kashubian alphabet (948 bytes)
11: | É || é || [[E]] with [[acute accent|acute]]
17: | Ń || ń || [[N]] with [[acute accent|acute]]
19: | Ò || ò || [[O]] with [[grave accent|grave]]
21: | Ó || ó || [[O]] with [[acute accent|acute]]
25: | Ù || ù || [[U]] with [[grave accent|grave]]

Caffè Nero (544 bytes)
3: ...usly written with an [[acute accent]], or with no accent at all.

Õ (855 bytes)
1: ...e [[Portuguese language]], where it stands for an accented nasalized [o]. It is not an actual letter of th...
3: ...on the web to stand for the "O" with double acute accent '''"Ő"''', or '''"ő"'''. Since the lett...
6: * [[Double acute accent|Double acute accent]]

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