unmarked stress
[/ʌnˈmɑːrkt ˈstres/]
nounpl: unmarked stresses
acento não marcado
1. In linguistics and phonetics, stress on a syllable that is not explicitly indicated by a written accent mark or diacritical sign
In English, the word 'photograph' has unmarked stress on the first syllable, even though no accent mark appears in standard spelling.
Em inglês, a palavra 'photograph' tem acento não marcado na primeira sílaba, embora nenhuma marca de acento apareça na grafia padrão.
2. Stress that is determined by pronunciation rules and conventions rather than by explicit orthographic notation
The unmarked stress in Portuguese words is often determined by morphological and phonological patterns.
O acento não marcado em palavras do português é frequentemente determinado por padrões morfológicos e fonológicos.
This is primarily a technical term used in linguistics, phonetics, and language education. It is more commonly encountered in academic and pedagogical contexts rather than in everyday speech. The concept is important in contrastive linguistics when comparing languages like English and Portuguese, which handle stress marking differently in their orthographic systems.
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