secondary accent

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secondary accent

See secondary stress.

secondary accent, stress

(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics (in a system of transcribing utterances recognizing three levels of stress) the accent on a syllable of a word or breath group that is weaker than the primary accent but stronger than the lack of stress in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable Compare primary accent

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