Meanings of accentual stress in English

Also, every variation from the type indicates a point of accentual stress; the syncopated measure, for instance, is always strongly accented.

The contribution of the several intervals according to position in the series and irrespective of accentual stress is given in the table following.

The values of the three elements when considered irrespective of accentual stress are as follows: First, 1.000; second, 1.001; third, 0.995.