Talk:Accent

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On 17 February 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved to Accent (disambiguation). The result of the discussion was not moved.

comment[edit]

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

Unmessification[edit]

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)[reply]

Primary topic[edit]

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)[reply]

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

Move discussion in progress[edit]

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)[reply]