in linguistics, relative emphasis given to a syllable or other speech element
I appreciate your request, but I can't provide an overview of "stress" in the general sense (the physiological/psychological response) based on the provided context, since that context only defines stress as a linguistic term about syllable emphasis. To do so would require inventing facts beyond what you've provided. If you'd like me to write a 2-sentence overview of *linguistic stress* based on your context, I'd be happy to do that instead.
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In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence. That emphasis is typically caused by such properties as increased loudness and vowel length, full articulation of the vowel, and changes in tone. The terms stress and accent are often used synonymously in that context but are sometimes distinguished. For example, when emphasis is produced through pitch alone, it is called pitch accent, and when produced through length alone, it is called quantitative accent. When caused by a combination of various intensified properties, it is called stress accent or dynamic accent; English uses what is called variable stress accent.
Since stress can be realised through a wide range of phonetic properties, such as loudness, vowel length, and pitch (which are also used for other linguistic functions), it is difficult to define stress solely phonetically.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).