The phrase "accent word" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a word that carries emphasis or stress in speech, often in the context of linguistics or phonetics.
Example: "In the word 'banana', the accent word is the second syllable, which is stressed when pronounced."
Alternatives: "stressed word" or "emphasized word".
A blogger for the Economist replies: "It's true that Mr Ramsey's accent, word-choice and grammar all suggest a black American without higher education.
When provided with pitch cues (F), children increased utterance-wide peak F0 range (mean = 34.5 Hz) and absolute peak F0 for accented words.
Originally from Zimbabwe, he delivered his accented words slowly and cautiously as he described Joyce and the two years they lived together in the early 90s.
Bond speaks the classy accent-words, cocksmiths on an unparalleled scale, bleeds the line between cleverness and gadgets, and re-spawns as the masculine ideal of the period thereby guaranteeing an eternity of dude-debates over the pinnacle of testosterone, among a champion's testosterone bracket.
However, attempts are being made by some writers and radio presenters to revitalise its use and the distinctive sing-song accent and many dialect words of Norse origin remain in use.
Word accent (also called word stress, or lexical stress) is part of the characteristic way in which a language is pronounced.
It took a while for Obinze to completely understand what Nigel said, because of his accent, each word twisted and stretched.
As he began speaking to the tribunal with a soft Glaswegian accent, every word he uttered was weighted.
To investigate the importance of contextual information in prosodic event detection, the work in[16] examined the detection performance of pitch accent at word, syllable, and vowel levels, respectively.
Even with Marie's charming French accent, the word struck terror into my heart.
My editor in Birmingham sometimes objects to quirks of accent or wording (questioning my use of the word "turlit" for "toilet," a panel featuring pantsing), and the Charlottesville paper recently declined to run a particularly filthy strip called "X-Rated Acts of Tenderness".
