pitch accent (English, noun)
expansion: pitch accent (plural pitch accents)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.
Forms:
form: pitch accents
tags: plural