In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing marks (), as well as combinations of these.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of ll / l · l.

The acute and the grave accent indicate stress and vowel height, the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization, the diaeresis mark indicates either a hiatus, or that the letter u is pronounced when the graphemes gü, qü are followed by e or i, the interpunct (·) distinguishes the different values of nh / n · h and sh / s · h.

The acute and the circumflex accent indicate stress and vowel height, the grave accent indicates crasis, the tilde represents nasalization, and the cedilla marks the result of a historical palatalization.

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However, literary conventions that we take for granted today had not yet been inventedthere was no spacing between words, no consistency in punctuation nor in vowel elisions, no marks for breathings and accent ( guides to pronunciation and hence word recognition ), no convention to denote change of speaker and no stage directions, and verse was written straight across the page like prose.

The standardized orthography marks the long vowels with an acute accent.

The acute accent ( á, é, í, ó, ú ) or circumflex accent ( â, ê, î, ô, û, ŷ ) marks long vowels in the Elvish languages.

The difference is that the languages of the former often need extra space going atop the capital letters for accent marks ( e. g. Ñ, Â, Ö, É ), but English doesn't need this.

* in French, in Spanish and in Italian, accent marks and most other diacritical markings are ignored, except the tilde in Spanish: for instance, in French, the final E of answer ÊTRE can double as the final É of CONGÉ when written ETRE and CONGE ; but in Spanish, N and Ñ are distinct letters.

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As indicated by the accent marks, the stress is always on the last syllable, which is unlike the dative-case forms with the same spelling.

By the time lower case letters, iota subscripts, accent marks, rough or smooth breathing marks over letters, and punctuation appeared in written Greek in the Middle Ages, Attic Greek writings had not been produced by native speakers for some centuries.

* Insular uncial ( not to be confused with the separate insular script ) generally has definite word separation, and accent marks over stressed syllables, probably because Irish scribes did not speak a language descended from Latin.

In Modern Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word.

The acute accent marks the stressed vowel of a word in several languages:

The acute accent marks the height of some stressed vowels in various Romance languages.

Unlike in other Romance languages, the accent marks do not imply stress in French.

Due to their Bavarian accent, citizens of Munich pronounced " Einbeck " as " ein Bock " (" a billy goat "), and thus the beer became known as " bock ".

It has thus been the accent of those with power, money and influence since the early to mid 20th century, though it has more recently been criticised as a symbol of undeserved privilege.

Welk thus acquired his trademark accent, typical of these Plattdeutsch or Low German-speaking immigrants who usually spoke the language at home long after they began to learn English at school.

A clause in Fields ' contract stated that he had to play the part with a British accent, but as he had difficulty learning the lines he had to read off cue cards and thus speaks in his own accent in the role.

In some accents, various sounds have merged in that they are no longer distinctive, and thus words that differ only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction ( a minimal pair ) are homophonous in the accent with the merger.

We have heard various ways, but none that sounded so naturally and well as by accenting the second syllable, thus Ma-zom-anie, the accent as in Menominee.

There are also phonetically palatalized consonants ( marked with an acute accent ) that contrast with this ; thus the distinction is made between " palatal " ( postalveolar ) and " palatalized ".

More recently, there is mounting evidence that the cerebellum, which controls motor function, may be crucially involved in some cases of foreign accent syndrome, reinforcing the notion that speech pattern alteration is mechanical, and thus non-specific.

In the U. S., non-rhoticity is a particularly notable feature of a Boston accent, thus the person might seem to speak with a Boston accent to the casual listener.

On the accent devant ( front ), the heel of the working is placed in front of the leg, while the toes point to the back, allowing the instep ( cou-de-pied in French ) of the working foot to " hug " the lower leg, thus giving the position its name.

When competing, two women stand face-to-face and sing using a complex method of following each other, thus that one voice hits a strong accent while the other hits a weak, melding the two voices into a nearly indistinguishable single sound.

He hails from Llamedos ( the Discworld's Wales ) and thus has a slight lilt to his accent.

Although it has long been known as the " Minute ( accent on second syllable ) Waltz ", a nickname meaning a " small " waltz, given by its publisher, Chopin did not intend for this waltz to be played in one minute: a typical performance of the work will last between one and a half and two and a half minutes. The waltz is 138 measures long with one fifteen-measure repeat included, and thus it would have to be played at almost 420 quarter notes per minute in order to play it completely within a single minute.

Some locals believe that if a non-local attempts to speak pidgin, it is equivalent to trying to speak with any other regional U. S. accent ( such as a Southern accent ), thus mocking their way of speaking.

The skit always begins with a comic strip story, explaining about an average man ( who spoke in a general Australian accent ) who made his own beer in his kitchen to have only had it explode, thus becoming " Blokeman ".

After a family holiday in Ireland as a boy, O ' Sullivan returned with a strong Irish accent and was sent to the famous Corona Theatre School to try to get rid of it, thus starting a distinguished acting career.

When portraying Baltar's " native " accent, James Callis adopts a Yorkshire accent as it is an accent that can be stereotypically associated with people who come from a working-class background and thus fit the image that his character was trying to project of life on Aerilon as an isolated agricultural planet.

A traditional drink of Argentina is an infusion called mate ( in Spanish, mate, with the accent on the first syllable ).

In modern day Italian, this term designates a bordello ( also called " casa chiusa ", literally " closed house "), while the gambling house is spelled casinò with an accent.

This division is reflected in the local accent: The more affluent citizens are usually called " Hagenaars " and speak so-called " bekakt Haags " (" Bekakt " is Dutch for " posh " or " stuck-up ").

" Saints ", as Saint Helenan islanders are called, have a variety of different influences on their accent.

Such minimal systems are sometimes called pitch accent, since they are reminiscent of stress accent languages which typically allow one principal stressed syllable per word.

Some East Asian languages, such as Burmese, Korean, and Japanese have simpler tone systems, which are sometimes called ' register ' or ' pitch accent ' systems.

* A few Indo-European languages, namely Ancient Greek, Swedish, Norwegian, Limburgish, Lithuanian, the West South Slavic languages ( Slovene and Serbo-Croatian ), Vedic Sanskrit, and Punjabi have limited word-tone systems which are sometimes called pitch accent or " tonal accents ".

A July 2010 report by Paul Kerswill, Professor of Sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, called Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety, claimed that the Cockney accent will disappear from London's streets within 30 years.

A fake Cockney accent is sometimes called " Mockney ".

Most of the features mentioned above have, in recent years, partly spread into more general south-eastern speech, giving the accent called Estuary English ; an Estuary speaker will use some but not all of the Cockney sounds.

It maintains a steady rhythmic pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than the accent of a crash.

Like the Kennedys, Quimby " speaks with a Boston accent, throws money at political problems, and vacations in a coastal resort called the ' Quimby Compound.

Williams was widely seen as being in over his head and was an easy target for his NHL colleagues, who called him " Jed Clampett " behind his back because of his thick Southern accent and fundamentalist Christian views ( unlike most of his fellow owners, Williams did not smoke, drink or curse ).

Cartwright called him, and left a message in a Cockney accent on his answering machine.

Locally, the accent is called " Hoi Toider ", in that the term " High tider " is pronounced with a distinctive " oy " in the hard " i ".

Freed used an African-American accent and with a Rhythm and Blues record called " Moondog " as his theme song, broadcast R & B hits into the night,

The acute accent ( sometimes called accento chiuso, " close accent " in Italian ) is compulsory only in words of more than one syllable stressed on their final vowel ( and a few other words ).

Their friend Jason Larsen was called Slow One by his French-speaking boss, which with the French accent sounded more like Sloan.

He also makes short videos that are on the BBC Comedy Channel called " Country Man ", featuring himself doing a posh accent in the countryside.

In some languages, stressed syllables have a higher or lower pitch than non-stressed syllablesthis is called pitch accent ( or musical accent ).