Accent

Accent may refer to:

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Speech and language

  • Accent, way of pronunciation particular to a speaker or group of speakers, for example : as in "The Whale Joke".
  • Accent (sociolinguistics), way of pronunciation particular to a speaker or group of speakers
  • Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase
  • Stress (linguistics), prominence signaled by loudness, length, or qualitative differences
  • Pitch accent, prominence signaled primarily by pitch
  • Accent (poetry), placement of prominent syllables in scansion
  • Diacritic, a mark added above, on top of, or below a letter
  • Accent (fallacy), a logical fallacy related to reification
  • Music

  • Accent (music), an emphasis placed on a particular note
  • Accent (band), Belarusian heavy metal band
  • Ecclesiastical accent, the simplest style of plainchant
  • Computers

  • Accent (programming language), an interpreted programming language for computers
  • Accent (programming language)

    Accent is a very high level interpreted programming language, published in 1990 by CaseWare, Inc. (acquired by Telelogic Synergy). Accent has native support for strings and tables. It is strongly typed and supports remote function calls.

    This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.


    Accent (fallacy)

    The fallacy of accent (also referred to as accentus, from its latin denomination, and misleading accent) is a specific type of ambiguity that arises when the meaning of a sentence is changed by placing an unusual prosodic stress (emphasis on a word), or when, in a written passage, it's left unclear which word the emphasis was supposed to fall on.

    History

    Among the thirteen types of fallacies in his book Sophistical Refutations, Aristotle lists a fallacy he calls προσῳδία (prosody), later translated in Latin as accentus. While the passage is considered obscure, it is commonly interpreted as referring to the ambiguity that emerges when a word can be mistaken for another by changing suprasegmental phonemes, which in Ancient Greek correspond to diacritics (accents and breathings). It should be noted that, since words stripped from their diacritics don't actually exist in the Ancient Greek language, this notion of accent was troublesome for later commentators.

    Whatever the interpretation, in the Aristotelian tradition the fallacy remains roughly confined to issues of lexical stress. It is only later that the fallacy came to identify shifts in prosodic stress.

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