acute accent

noun

the diacritical mark (´), used in the writing system of some languages to indicate that the vowel over which it is placed has a special quality (as in French été ) or that it receives the strongest stress in the word (as in Spanish hablé )

On many of the transcriptions used in this book, an acute accent is used when an apostrophe would be expected by most readers.

The French word "mouill" appears, apparently randomly, both with and without the acute accent.

The acute accent on vowels indicates a stressed syllable, which is also raised in pitch.

Some, but by no means all, of 'ee' has the first 'e' marked with an acute accent.

Syllable stress is represented by an acute accent either on the main vwel or after the syllable; inconsistencies are unchanged.

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