accent

/ˈækˌsɛnt/（名詞）, /ækˈsɛnt/（動詞）

意味: なまり／強調

例文: Momo speaks fluent French with a meow accent.
　　  モモは鳴き声なまりのフランス語を話す。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: strong accent（強いなまり）, foreign accent（外国訛り）, regional accent（地域訛り）

定義: 話し方の特徴。外国語を話すときに出る音の違いや、単語の強く読む部分のこと。

accentは約70,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: distinctive manner of oral expression
Noun: special importance or significance
Noun: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Noun: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch)
Noun: a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation
Verb: to stress, single out as important
Verb: put stress on; utter with an accent

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

She spoke with a charming French accent that captivated everyone.(彼女は魅力的なフランス訛りで話し、皆を魅了しました。)
I love how your accent makes every story sound more interesting!(あなたの訛りが物語をより面白くするのが大好きです！)
The professor’s accent added a unique authenticity to his lecture on linguistics.(教授の訛りは言語学の講義に独特の本物感を加えました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: he couldn’t suppress his contemptuous accent
Noun: she had a very clear speech pattern
Noun: the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis
Noun: the room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents
Noun: the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English
Noun: he has a strong German accent
Noun: it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy
Noun: he put the stress on the wrong syllable
Verb: Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet
Verb: In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): accent, accent mark, accentuate, dialect, emphasis, emphasise, emphasize, idiom, punctuate, speech pattern, stress

Antonyms(反意語):

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): diacritical mark, express, importance, non-standard speech, pronounce, pronunciation, prosody

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accent, articulation, aspirate, baby talk, beam, breve, burst out, caesura, cedilla, circumflex, click, devoice, dialect, drawl, emphasis, enjambment, explode, exude, flap, give, give voice, hacek, homophony, imply, intonation, lilt, lisp, localism, macron, menace, mispronounce, mispronunciation, nasalize, palatalize, primacy, raise, regionalism, retroflex, rhythm, roll, round, sibilate, sibilation, slang, smile, sneer, stress, subvocalize, suggest, syllabize, telegraphese, tilde, trill, twang, umlaut, vent, vernacular, vocalize, voice

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): accentuation, acute accent, background, bear down, bring out, drawl, drive home, eye dialect, grave accent, patois, point up, re-emphasise, sentence stress, stress, stress mark, tonic accent, topicalize, underscore, word stress

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: accent, accentual, accentuate, accentuation, dialectal, emphasis, emphasize, emphasizing, emphatic, stress

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: formal

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

TOEIC500

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Holes

Movies(映画):

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: