accented
accent
verb[ T ]
uk /ˈæk.sənt/ us /ˈæk.sent/
to emphasize something: 强调;着重;突出
In any advertising campaign, you must accent the areas where your product is better than the competition.在广告宣传中，必须突出你的产品优于竞争对手的方面。
specializedAccent the first note of every bar.突出每一小节的第一个音符。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stressing & emphasizing
accentuate
accentuation
all day longidiom
believe
deadass
drive your message/point homeidiom
drive/hammer something homeidiom
highlight
impress something on/upon someone
insistency
insistently
intensely
like blazesidiom
percent
ram
sooth
stress
vaunt
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your arse offidiom
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your ass offidiom

accent | American Dictionary

accent
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæk·sent/

accentnoun[C] (WAY OF PRONOUNCING)

the way in which people in a particular area or country pronounce words:
She spoke with a slight southern accent.
An accent is also a mark written or printed over a letter to show how to pronounce it.

accentnoun[C] (EMPHASIS)

a special emphasis given to a syllable in a word or to a word in a sentence:
In the word "government," the accent is on the first syllable.
accent
verb[ T ]
us/ˈæk·sent, ækˈsent/

accentverb[T] (EMPHASIZE)

to give special emphasis to a syllable in a word or to a word in a sentence:
In Spanish, you usually accent the next-to-last syllable.

Examples of accent

accent
Thus, the same phonetic features are represented in accents and tones.
They tried to mimic the accent of those who taught them.
Because most nonnative speakers will have a noticeable accent with or without instruction, should pronunciation be taught?
Of the 48 participants, 27 showed a larger accent effect for unfocussed than for focussed targets and 21 showed the reverse (a nonsignificant difference).
Given that accent and intelligibility are related but partially independent dimensions, it seems reasonable to explore the nature of the relationship between the two.
This study has highlighted the importance of examining the processing of accent-related variability in children with speech difficulties.
In other cases, the text/accent relationship is somewhat more complex.
For the purposes of this article, this task is referred to as an accent auditory lexical decision task.
However, since only pitch is involved, it is clear that the abstract accent is nothing but 'an indication of pitch'.
The comparatively narrow accent range of pitch elevations throughout the period of study confirmed these physiological, linguistic, and developmental expectations.
Another result has been the increase of multi-voicedness in market discourse - a greater number of accents, dialects, and ethnic minority languages.
Reliability coefficients (standardized alpha) of 0.95 and 0.94 were calculated for the accent and perceived comprehensibility ratings, respectively.
Can children with speech difficulties process an unfamiliar accent?
It is suggested that such phonetic responses are related to the younger children's failure to map the unfamiliar accent onto their own phonological representations.
These output-based studies provide some grounds for hypothesizing that there may be age-related differences in children's input processing of unfamiliar accents.
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Collocations withaccent

accent

These are words often used in combination with accent.

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foreign accent
Factors affecting degree of perceived foreignaccent in a second language.
gold accents
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