English
Noun
pitch accent (plural pitch accents)
- (linguistics) A term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.
Translations
phonology
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 音高重音 (yīngāo zhòngyīn)
- French: accent de hauteur m, accent tonal m
- Japanese: 高低アクセント (こうていアクセント, kōtei akusento) 高さアクセント (takasa akusento), 音声高さアクセント (onjō takasa akusento, onsei takasa akusento), ピッチアクセント (pitchi-akusento)
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- Polish: akcent toniczny m
- Portuguese: acento tonal m, acento musical m, acento de altura m
- Russian: тональное ударе́ние n (tonalʹnoje udarénije) (tonál’noje udarénije), тоническое ударе́ние n (toničeskoje udarénije) (toníčeskoje udarénije), тоновое ударе́ние n (tonovoje udarénije) (tónovoje udarénije)
- Spanish: acento tonal m, acento musical m
- Swedish: ordaccent, tonaccent, musikalisk accent
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