Timeline for How important is accent for being understood in a given language?
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| Apr 7, 2016 at 8:57 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 20:13 | history | edited | kenorb | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Expanding post a bit. |
| S Apr 6, 2016 at 20:11 | history | suggested | Dan Getz | CC BY-SA 3.0 | clarify insight/incite example; tweak some sentence structure |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 19:59 | comment | added | callyalater | Accent also can affect the part of speech (PoS) of a word. For example, protest: noun or verb? ['pro-test] is a noun, [pro-'test] is a verb. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 19:55 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Apr 6, 2016 at 19:51 | comment | added | Dan Getz | @ANeves yes, that's correct, when emphasizing a contrast, the stress will fall on the word being contrasted. That example in the question is correct when nothing's being emphasized or contrasted. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | kenorb | @ANeves I'm not native, so unfortunately I can't share this. The example about paper was actually taken from the wiki from the provided link, where there are more examples. | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 17:04 | comment | added | ANeves | Could you not say "páper bag" to mean you wanted a bag made of paper, as opposed to a plastic bag? I don't understand very well your examples in the end. (Are you a native English speaker? If not, could a native share their opinion on my question?) | |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 13:53 | vote | accept | Mathieu | ||
| Apr 6, 2016 at 12:59 | history | edited | kenorb | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 5 characters in body |
| Apr 6, 2016 at 9:36 | history | answered | kenorb | CC BY-SA 3.0 |