secondary accent
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secondary accent
noun
a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
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| secondary accent or secondary stress | |
| —n | |
| phonetics Compare primary accent (in a system of transcribing utterances recognizing three levels of stress) the accent on a syllable of a word or breath group that is weaker than the primary accent but stronger than the lack of stress: in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable | |
| secondary stress or secondary stress | |
| —n | |
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Secondary accent
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