secondary stress

柯林斯词典

secondary accent (also secondary stress)

• 1. N (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 (有三個層次輕重音之分的話語系統裡的)次重音[phonetics] →compare primary accent

  in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable

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