The phonetic or phonological feature that distinguishes emphatic consonants from other consonants.
Special attention or prominence given to something.
Special weight or forcefulness given to something considered important.
The use of boldface, italics, or other such formatting to highlight text.
Prominence given to a syllable or words, by raising the voice or printing in italic or underlined type.
A letter representing the sound of vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and y.
A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).