Meaning of deaccent | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove the accent or stress from (a syllable).

transitive

Examples

“Suprasegmentally, there is a tendency to de-accent information which is repeated, a prominent stressing of demonstratives these and this, and modals and auxiliaries such as should and will, plus a rise-fall intonation that gives a ‘lilting’ quality.”

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