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primary stress

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primary stress
n. In both senses also called primary accent.
1. The strongest degree of stress placed on a syllable in the pronunciation of a word.
2. The mark () used to indicate the strongest degree of stress.

primary stress
n
(Linguistics) Linguistics another term for primary accent


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