SENTENCE STRESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The distribution of stresses within a sentence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("sentence stress" is a kind of...):

accent; emphasis; stress (the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch))

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