tonic accent
prominence given to a syllable in speaking, usually due to a change, especially a rise, in pitch.
Origin of tonic accent
1Words Nearby tonic accent
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How to use tonic accent in a sentence
Eventually he discovers the tonic accent of the word, which is then immediately identified.
Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria MontessoriIn fact, we have seen that, as the child reads, it is his discovery of the tonic accent that brings him to recognize the word.
Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria MontessoriThe first consists of a list of words, each on a separate card, with the tonic accent marked.
Montessori Elementary Materials | Maria MontessoriThe Greek accents on Hebrew words always accord, as Hebraists know, with the tonic accent in that language.
Even in words of two syllables the tonic accent must be strongly perceived in the first syllable.
The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto | George Cox
British Dictionary definitions for tonic accent
emphasis imparted to a note by virtue of its having a higher pitch, rather than greater stress or long duration relative to other notes
another term for pitch accent
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