Meaning Of The Word Contrastive stress

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contrastive stress in American English
noun: a stress imposed on a word or syllable contrary to its normal accentuation in order to contrast it with an alternative word or syllable or to focus attention on it, as the stress given to the normally unstressed word of in government of the people, by the

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