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Stress, in phonetics, intensity given to a syllable of speech by special effort in utterance, resulting
in relative loudness
Tone, in linguistics, a variation in the pitch of the voice while speaking. The word tone is usually
applied to those languages (called tone languages) in which pitch serves to help distinguish words
and grammatical categories
Accent, in phonetics, that property of a syllable which makes it stand out in an utterance relative
to its neighbouring syllables
Pitch, in speech, the relative highness or lowness of a tone as perceived by the ear, which depends
on the number of vibrations per second produced by the vocal cords. Pitch is the main acoustic
correlate of tone and intonation
Intonation is primarily a matter of variation in the pitch level of the voice , but in such languages as
English, stress and rhythm are also involved. Intonation conveys differences of expressive meaning