Accent (disambiguation)

Accent may refer to:

Speech and language

 * Accent (sociolinguistics), way of pronunciation by a speaker with shared characteristic of a certain locality within the community
 * Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase
 * Stress (linguistics), dynamic prominence
 * Pitch accent, tonal prominence
 * Accent (poetry), placement of prominent syllables in scansion
 * Diacritic or accent mark, a mark added to a letter to indicate sound value
 * Accentus (fallacy) or Fallacy of accent, a logical fallacy related to Reification (fallacy)

Music

 * Accent (music), an emphasis placed on a particular note