emphasis vs inflection

emphasis

noun
  • Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type. 

  • Special attention or prominence given to something. 

  • The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants. 

  • Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important. 

  • The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text. 

inflection

noun
  • A change in pitch or tone of voice. 

  • Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories. 

  • Diffraction. 

  • Any form produced by such an instance of a change, such as the principal parts for any given stem: any of the declined or conjugated forms that constitute its declension or conjugation. 

  • An affix representing such an instance. 

  • A turning away from a straight course. 

  • A change in curvature from concave to convex or from convex to concave. 

  • An instance of such change. 

How often have the words emphasis and inflection occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )