Sentence examples for called accent from inspiring English sources

Word tone is called accent, and sentence tone is referred to as intonation.

Accent components result from the response to a similar filter, excited with a step function called accent command.

You may remember when the MSG powder called "Accent" first hit the U.S. market.

Other publications include a local monthly magazine dealing with city and regional issues in the Amarillo area called, Accent West.

Only three of her 26 pictures are available on DVD in this country and it's high time that the "Caribbean Cyclone" was accorded her place alongside Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Ingrid Bergman, Dolores Del Rio, Lupe Velez, Carmen Miranda and Hedy Lamarr in the pantheon of what Smith might have called "accented cuties".

Accent, also called Stress, in music, momentary emphasis on a particular rhythmic or melodic detail; accent may be implied or specifically indicated, either graphically for example, >, —) or verbally (sforzato, abbreviated sfz).

This is called a stress accent: the accented syllable is pronounced with greater force or intensity.

Miller, along with Jack Ryalls of the University of Central Florida, recently compiled a book detailing these experiences, called Foreign Accent Syndromes: The stories people have to tell.

Word accent (also called word stress, or lexical stress) is part of the characteristic way in which a language is pronounced.

"Hellooo!" she called in accented English to arriving clients as she did a little dance past the reception desk.

The editors respond: The Times's style manual calls for accent marks in the Romance languages and German only -- the languages most widely known to American writers and readers, for which the news paper's typesetting systems are best equipped.