pitch accent

Questions about pitch accent

What is another word for pitch accent?

It depends which pitch accent you mean. In the sense “emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness”, the synonyms are tonic accent. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pitch accent?

WordNet records no antonym for pitch accent. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pitch accent come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pitch accent

• Full entry for pitch accentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pitch accentWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.