stress
in linguistics, relative emphasis given to a syllable or other speech element
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Summary
stress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,150 views/month).[1]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: human behavior[2]
- Part of: speech[3], idiolect[4]
- Has use: emphasis[5]
- Topic's main category: Category:Stress (linguistics)[6]
- Notation: primary stress mark[7], secondary stress mark[8], accent symbol[9]
- Described by source: Encyclopedia of Linguistics[10], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], Kościelna encyclopedia[12], Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13]
- Topic has template: Template:Accent[14]
- Different from: accent[15], diacritic[16]
- Uses: loudness[17], vowel length[18], pitch[19]
- Studied by: accentology[20], phonology[21], prosody[22]
Why It Matters
stress has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] stress is known by 76 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]