| secondary stress n. In both senses also called secondary accent. 1. The degree of stress weaker than a primary accent placed on a syllable in the pronunciation of a word. 2. The mark (  ) used to indicate secondary stress. |
secondary stress
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(Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) another term for secondary accent
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