The point is that its not a single uniform feature and should therefor not be summarized in one single term Its just a nonlinguistic definition that actually means something completely different in musical and psychological context What is described in melodic accent is actually called tonal word accent and this was first recorded in the s by the German linguist Ernest A Meyer in his two volumework Die Intonation den Schwedischen The Intonation of Swedish and systematically described in Eva Grdings The Scandinavian Word Accents  based mostly on Meyers material