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accentual
adjective
language, literature specializeduk /əkˈsen.tju.əl/ us /əkˈsen.tʃu.əl/
relating to the use of accents(= special emphasis given to particular syllables, words, or sounds) in a language, in poetry, etc.:
All languages have some kind of rhythmical or accentual structure.
The accentual system makes some syllables and words in utterances more prominent than others.
Spoken performance of pentameter is open to variation in a way accentual verse is not, he says.
His paper discusses accentual and cohesive functions of intonation in the speech of language learners.
Early French folk poetry was presumed to have descended from the accentual meter of popular Latin verse.
The different accentual patterns of the separate musical lines create a complex, compelling effect.
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