secondary accent (also secondary stress)

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  N (in a system of transcribing utterances recognizing three levels of stress) the accent on a syllable of a word or breath group that is weaker than the primary accent but stronger than the lack of stress (有三个层次轻重音之分的话语系统里的)次重音 [phonetics] → compare primary accent

  例：

  in the word ``agriculture'' the secondary accent falls on the third syllable