What's the difference between accented and unaccented?

Accented


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Accent

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I think you're probably right that the accent does degenerate along with Richard.
  • (2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (3) We describe a right-handed native American who developed a foreign accent following damage to the left premotor region and white matter anterior to the head of the left caudate nucleus.
  • (4) The accent in rheumatism orthopedics should gradually shift toward early preventive operation.
  • (5) He does not appear to have a regional or working-class accent.
  • (6) Fifty-three years on, he has a broad Yorkshire accent but still speaks fluent Urdu: a boon in a constituency containing places such as Bradford, where 20% of the population are of Pakistani heritage.
  • (7) I first moved to New York aged 11, and found my accent provoked a certain suspicion.
  • (8) As he was detained, the gunman, wearing a balaclava and a bathrobe, allegedly repeated twice in French with an English accent: "The Anglophones are waking up," an apparent reference to the "maple spring" of student protests against the government that contributed to the snap election being called.
  • (9) Executive producer, played by Emily Mortimer Boy, do they work to explain Mortimer's English accent… Anyway, she's the show's new Anglo-American chief.
  • (10) His Scottish accent was only fleetingly used, something kept up his sleeve, as he said, "like a dirk for tight corners".
  • (11) One girl with a Scouse accent sees me taking notes and says: "Oi, get up me dear… stop writing youse!"
  • (12) Instead, let's hunt down whoever told Van Dyke an English accent just involves adding "guvnerrrr" to every other sentence.
  • (13) Up the hill, the prince was trying out his schoolboy French – " C'est un honneur pour nous d'être parmi vous … merci votre patience avec mon accent " – and was cheered for doing so.
  • (14) Memory confusions of temporal patterns in a discrimination task were characterized by the same hierarchy of inferred accent strength.
  • (15) We meet in her home city of Cologne, and although she speaks with only the faintest trace of a foreign accent, vocabulary often escapes her.
  • (16) A special accent was laid on the formation of the sporulation septum and its alterations in the course of spore delimitation and separation.
  • (17) Similar rhythms preserved accent coupling, whereas dissimilar rhythms did not.
  • (18) The Lib Dem and Labour leaders have Yorkshire seats, but neither possesses the matching accent.
  • (19) His film, The Angels' Share, a larky whisky heist, was screened with English as well as French subtitles at the festival, lest the Glaswegian accents prove a barrier for non-Scots.
  • (20) These are, in chronological order, Johann August Wilhelm Hedenus (the elder; 1760-1834), Friedrich August von Ammon (1799-1861) and Eduard Zeis (1807-1868); Zeis' career is reviewed briefly here with the accent on Dresden.

Unaccented


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