How do you use Accentuation in a sentence? See 7 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like stress or emphasis, plus the exact meaning.
Accentuation in a sentence
Accentuation meaning
- Act of accentuating; applications of accent.
- Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
Using Accentuation
- The main meaning on this page is: Act of accentuating; applications of accent. | Pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy.
- Useful related words include: stress, emphasis, accent, emphasizing.
- In the example corpus, accentuation often appears in combinations such as: accentuation of.
Context around Accentuation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Accentuation
- In this selection, "accentuation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, differing, hierarchical and phonology stand out and add context to how "accentuation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and hierarchical accentuation of beats and but its accentuation will sometimes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "accentuation" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with accentuation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This accentuation of the negative also betrays a lack of confidence about how to convey Labour’s positive messages. (19 words)
There are conventions in most musical traditions for regular and hierarchical accentuation of beats to reinforce a given meter. (19 words)
The 12-beat cycle is the most common in flamenco, differentiated by the accentuation of the beats in different palos. (20 words)
The schwa vowel /ǝ/ is written ambiguously as e, but its accentuation will sometimes distinguish it: a long vowel mark can never appear on a schwa, while a grave accent can appear only on a schwa. (36 words)
The Serbo-Croatian dialects differ not only in the question word they are named after, but also heavily in phonology, accentuation and intonation, case endings and tense system (morphology) and basic vocabulary. (32 words)
Again, many thanks for the patience for my accentuation of English, for my direct speaking, but it's always been a pleasure, and you've been a source of inspiration. (30 words)
Example sentences (7)
Again, many thanks for the patience for my accentuation of English, for my direct speaking, but it's always been a pleasure, and you've been a source of inspiration.
This accentuation of the negative also betrays a lack of confidence about how to convey Labour’s positive messages.
All Hasidic schools devoted a prominent place in their teaching, with differing accentuation, to the interchanging nature of Ein, both infinite and imperceptible, becoming Yesh, "Existent" – and vice versa.
The 12-beat cycle is the most common in flamenco, differentiated by the accentuation of the beats in different palos.
There are conventions in most musical traditions for regular and hierarchical accentuation of beats to reinforce a given meter.
The schwa vowel /ǝ/ is written ambiguously as e, but its accentuation will sometimes distinguish it: a long vowel mark can never appear on a schwa, while a grave accent can appear only on a schwa.
The Serbo-Croatian dialects differ not only in the question word they are named after, but also heavily in phonology, accentuation and intonation, case endings and tense system (morphology) and basic vocabulary.
Common combinations with accentuation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- accentuation of 4×