Accents

[NA]	secondary stress
[PA]	primary stress
[EK]	emphases/contrast

Accentuated words are marked with stress labels. Here we distinguish between different accentuation patterns. The accent labels are placed behind the respective word, and if there's already a pronunciation comment, behind that. Just like the boundary labelling the labelling of accents should be considered in every single phrase - no matter how short it may be.

1. Primary Stress [PA]:
   This label can be found with the most accentuated word of the phrase. The word marked normally also contains the most important information for the hearer. Usually, the label is allocated only once per phrase.

   w001_ptd_001_AAA: kannst du den [B2] Videorekorder [PA] 
   programmieren [B3 fall] ?
       

2. Secondary Stress [NA]:
   All other words accentuated within a phrase are labelled with [NA]. Here, it's quite usual to label more than one word per phrase.

   w001_ptd_001_AAA: kannst [NA] du den [B2] Videorekorder [PA]
   programmieren [NA] [B3 fall] ?
       

3. Contrastive Stress [EK]:
   When a word is more heavily stressed than usually this might be the result of the speaker trying to emphasize or contrast something. In very obvious cases we might use [EK] instead of [PA]. Such strong accentuations are found rarely, though.