Talk:Accent

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There are many different accents in this English; world accents are also called yaxents.

Unmessification

This is one of the least messy pages regarding accents. The primary, I stress (for the sheer dramaturgy of it), the primary usage of accent is phonological tone and stress in words in a language. The word "accent" refering to a certain pronunciation pattern among a certain group of people is a colloquial misnomer for dialectal variation. The following articles needs renaming:

• Stress (linguistics) should be Accent (linguistics), since the article is about Stress (linguistics) and Tone (linguistics) which in linguistics is collected under the term Accent.
• The linguistics term accent, is the oldest meaning one emerging from Latin accentus, it's also the one meaning listed as primary in my Swedish-English dictionary,
• Accent (linguistics) should be merged with Dialect, which is the proper linguistic term. All articles named Accent (something) should have a pointer to Accent (disambiguation).

Querulated Said: Rursus ☻ 13:17, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Primary topic

There are a lot of items on this disambiguation page, and I think there is a primary topic. I think @Rursus (2008) agree(d) with me in this, but came to endorse stress_(linguistics).

• accent_(sociolinguistics) gets several times more clicks than all the others: accent_(sociolinguistics) 7.3%; stress 1.3%; diacritic .5% (WikiNav)
• Regardless of what is the original sense, wp:disambiguation#is_there_a_primary_topic? specifically mentions that it does not need to be. From what I understand, the sociolinguist's sense has the greatest familiarity to a general audience, which are neither sociolinguist nor phonetician.

I think that Accent_(sociolinguistics) should be the primary sense. If there could somehow be several primary sources, (idk) I could be open to giving the top three topics mentioned above primary status because there are so many other senses. thoughts? Akalendos (talk) 23:52, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

actually, that's not what that statistic means Akalendos (talk) 19:48, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Accent (sociolinguistics) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 19:45, 17 February 2023 (UTC)