pitch accent

Noun

 * 1)  Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.

Translations

 * Catalan: accent musical
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 音高重音
 * Finnish: sävelaksentti
 * French:, accent tonal
 * German: Tonakzent
 * Japanese: 高低アクセント, 高さアクセント, 音声高さアクセント, ピッチアクセント
 * Korean: 고저(高低) 악센트
 * Polish: akcent toniczny
 * Portuguese: acento tonal, acento musical, acento de altura
 * Russian: тональное ударе́ние (tonál’noje udarénije), тоническое ударе́ние (toníčeskoje udarénije), тоновое ударе́ние (tónovoje udarénije)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: acento tonal, acento musical
 * Swedish: ordaccent, tonaccent, musikalisk accent