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secondary accent
noun
- a stress accent weaker than primary accent but stronger than lack of stress.
secondary accent
noun
- phonetics (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 Compare primary accent
in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable
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Word History and Origins
Origin of secondary accent1
First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences
In words like semliste, otrydre, the secondary accent was stronger than at present, especially when the final -e was sounded.
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Here sr-vic- is trisyllabic, with a secondary accent on the last syllable.
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The rhyme of victory and eternally is not very desirable, because both the rhyming syllables bear only a secondary accent.
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Words of more than four syllables, generally have a secondary accent on the fifth, as in t-ith-tis-chi-h-no, valley.
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In other respects verse-members with a secondary accent obey the same laws as those with a primary accent.
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