accented

• “The fundamental fact in the constitution of the rhythmical unit is the antithesis of two phases which we call the accented and the unaccented.”

  Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.

• “A video shows the doll in full geisha makeup, set to a woman's voice singing Marlene Dietrich's "Falling in Love Again" in Japanese-accented English.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Day in the Life of a Life-Size Doll

• ““Everybody get down!” he shouted in American-accented Polish, then suited action to words by diving into the snow himself.”

  DBTL 70: Bojowy!

• “ Some people come to change the battery, " he said in Russian-accented English.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Jewel of a Proprietor

• “He would later go on to voice a certain Southern-accented, polite, blue hound who shared part of his name with a Mark Twain character.”

  Afternoon Cartoon – The Bleat.

• “Speaking in American-accented Serbo-Croatian, he took the oath of office as prime minister of the rump Yugoslav federation dominated by Serbia, adding "So help me, God" in English.”

  Newsweek: Panic And Hope

• “The bearded man, speaking in American-accented English, said that he was the "emir" (director) of the facility.”

  Joanne Mariner: The CIA's "Disappeared"

• “Then a Mexican fellow appeared and, looking over my shoulder, asked in accented English what the problem was.”

  Christmas angels - a highway story in Mexico

• “This agglutination is precisely what obscured the original penultimate accent of the bare nominative singular, making it now a word accented on the antepenultimate syllable third-to-last syllable.”

  Sporadic phonetic changes in the Indo-European case system

• “It is just because he is not an East German survivor but a fresh, cosmopolitan child of the Americanized West, a privileged Wessi down to the carefully unbuttoned tips of his pink button-down shirt, fluent in American-accented English and the universal language of Hollywood, that he is able to translate the East German experience into an idiom that catches the imagination of the world.”

  The Stasi on Our Minds

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