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A lowered vertical stroke before a lightly stressed syllable.
Also known as: Lowered vertical line, IPA secondary stress
In the International Phonetic Alphabet a vertical stroke set low before a syllable marks it as carrying secondary stress: weaker than the main stress but stronger than an unstressed syllable.
Marks the following syllable as carrying secondary stress, distinguished from the primary mark by its position below rather than above the line.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Appears in transcriptions of longer English words, where a compound such as the first element of a long noun phrase carries a lesser stress.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A short vertical stroke set below the writing line, placed immediately before the syllable it marks.