Sentence examples for indicates an accent from inspiring English sources
The arrow over the second note indicates an accent.
The circumflex is the little conical hat that many French words wear to indicate a sounded accent, but it will now be lost, or at least optional, on words like coût.
That's because Ancient Greek was a pitch-accented language, a bit like Chinese is today: an accent indicated the relative pitch at which you pronounced a given syllable and not, as in English, the stress (emphasis or loudness) that you put on that syllable.
Underlining indicates nuclear pitch accents (solid lines) on the sentence-final target words and prenuclear pitch accents (dashed lines) on the sentence-initial verbs.
It was only in his Studies in Deductive Logic (1880) that Jevons mentioned McColl's use of an accent to indicate negation.
If it's not the second syllable, you'll see an accent mark indicating where the stress goes.
Unlike most European languages, Czech distinguishes vowel length; long vowels are indicated by an acute accent or, occasionally with ů, a ring.
This indicates the presence of accent commands that appear after the pitch accent.
One couple, clearly from out of town, indicated by their accents and matching tour hats, stood still as the human traffic surged around them.
He had an accent, but everyone had an accent".
