The phrase 'emphasis falls on' is correct and is commonly used in written English.
You can use it to indicate that particular attention or importance should be given to a certain word, phrase, or element of something. For example, "In this phrase, the emphasis falls on the word 'wrong'."
But much of the emphasis falls on outstanding figures, such as the heroes of the Civil Rights movement and famous writers, sportsmen, and musicians.
At a bris or christening, the emotional emphasis falls on the arrival of a new life in the embrace of family and community.
In the first, the emphasis falls on "up", whereas by breaking with the metre in the second version it falls on "tear" and "country".
The emphasis falls on the hardships encountered, with the solitary genius remaining unappreciated by the establishment until, late in life or after death, both work and worker are vindicated.
The emphasis falls on the men themselves, on the way their lives intersected or didn't intersect, and on the idea of influence and the interesting problem of artistic borrowing.
Process philosophers, such as Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, have held that the idea of God emerges in religious experience but that the nature and reality of God are problems calling for logical argument and metaphysical interpretation, in which emphasis falls on the relation between God and the world being realized in a temporal process.
For Pavlov, the emphasis fell on the contingent, provisional nature of the association — which enlisted other reflexes he believed to be natural and unvarying.
But as the record companies worked out how to sell pop and rock, the emphasis fell on the lyricists and singers, who embodied rock's cult of personality.
To link the new generalist leaders and the masses, emphasis fell on sending cadres to the lower levels (xiafang) for firsthand experience and manual labour and for practical political indoctrination.
I have heard a single line of Jerry's – "I don't think we don't love each other" – spoken with the emphasis falling on "I", "think", "don't" and "love", each of which significantly changes the scene and the play.
"Well into the 20th century," wrote Kendrick in The Secret Museum, "…the emphasis fell on the opposite side," encouraging people to evaluate art in terms of their own social mores.
