Assertion: stress | /r/HasProperty | phonetic
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: This emphasis in pronunciation may be merely phonetic (i.e., noticeable to the listener, but not meaningful), as it is in French, where it occurs regularly at the end of a word or phrase; or it may serve to distinguish meanings, as in English, in which, for example, stress differentiates the noun from the verb in the word