Speech and Language
- Accent (linguistics), way of pronunciation by a speaker with shared characteristic of a certain locality within the community
- Accent (poetry), of a word
- Stress (linguistics), tone levels and emphasis used in many languages for words or grammar
- A diacritical mark is also known as an accent.
- Fallacy of accent, a logical fallacy
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