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  2. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The stress placed on words within sentences is called sentence stress or prosodic stress. That is one of the three components of prosody , along with rhythm and intonation . It includes phrasal stress (the default emphasis of certain words within phrases or clauses ), and contrastive stress (used to highlight an item, a word or part of a word ...

  3. Accent (music) - Wikipedia

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    In music, an accent is an emphasis, stress, or stronger attack placed on a particular note or set of notes, or chord, either because of its context or specifically indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase.

  4. Secondary stress - Wikipedia

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    Secondary stress (or obsolete: secondary accent) is the weaker of two degrees of stress in the pronunciation of a word, the stronger degree of stress being called primary. The International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for secondary stress is a short vertical line preceding and at the foot of the secondarily stressed syllable, as before the -nun ...

  5. Grave accent - Wikipedia

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    While the stress is not marked most of the time a notable exception is the single-vowel word и: without an accent it denotes the 'and' conjunction (рокля и пола = 'dress and skirt') while stressed shows the possessive pronoun 'her' (роклята ѝ = 'her dress'). Hence the rule to always mark the stress in this isolated case.

  6. Stress Awareness Month: Tips for keeping tensions in check ...

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    Because of this, there is no single definition for stress, but the most common explanation is a physical, mental, or emotional strain or tension.

  7. Syllable - Wikipedia

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    Syllable structure often interacts with stress or pitch accent. In Latin, for example, stress is regularly determined by syllable weight, a syllable counting as heavy if it has at least one of the following: a long vowel in its nucleus; a diphthong in its nucleus; one or more codas; In each case, the syllable is considered to have two morae.

  8. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Stress functions as the means of making a syllable prominent. Stress may be studied in relation to individual words (named "word stress" or lexical stress) or in relation to larger units of speech (traditionally referred to as "sentence stress" but more appropriately named "prosodic stress"). Stressed syllables are made prominent by several ...

  9. Stress (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Schematic overview of the classes of stresses in plants Neurohormonal response to stress Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition. When stressed by stimuli that alter an organism's environment, multiple systems respond across the body. In humans and most mammals, the autonomic nervous system and ...