Prominence (linguistics)

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Prominence describes in linguistics a mechanism of the spoken language with which syllables or words are to be marked as linguistically emphasized. This is used to draw a listener's attention to words in question and is closely related to the semantic concept of information status. Linguistic prominence is still a young subject in linguistics, which only found its way into their style in the 1980s .

The phonology is concerned with the productive characteristics of celebrities. On the segmental level the phonetic prominence is expressed as sonority , on the suprasegmental level it is expressed as an accent .