stress

in linguistics, relative emphasis given to a syllable or other speech element
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stress

Summary

stress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,104 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • stress is a type of human behavior[2].
  • stress is part of speech[3].
  • stress is part of idiolect[4].
  • stress is used for emphasis[5].
  • stress's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Stress (linguistics)[6].
  • stress's notation is recorded as primary stress mark[7].
  • stress's notation is recorded as secondary stress mark[8].
  • stress's notation is recorded as accent symbol[9].
  • stress's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Linguistics[10].
  • stress's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • stress's described by source is recorded as Kościelna encyclopedia[12].
  • stress's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[13].
  • stress's topic has template is recorded as Template:Accent[14].
  • stress's different from is recorded as accent[15].
  • stress's different from is recorded as diacritic[16].
  • stress's uses is recorded as loudness[17].
  • stress's uses is recorded as vowel length[18].
  • stress's uses is recorded as pitch[19].
  • stress's studied by is recorded as accentology[20].
  • stress's studied by is recorded as phonology[21].
  • stress's studied by is recorded as prosody[22].

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Definition and Type

stress is a type of human behavior[2].

Use and Application

stress is used for emphasis[5]. Part of include speech[3], an action[23] and idiolect[4], a languoid class[24].

Why It Matters

stress ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,104 views/month).[1] stress has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] stress is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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