The high word-strain (accent) is the rising or strengthening of the voice on one sound of a word, as man´ly.
The high speech-strain (emphasis) is the rising or strengthening of the voice on a word of a thought-wording.
The voice may both rise and fall on the same sounds, as nō.
In English and its Teutonic sister speeches the strain keeps on the root or stem-word, as man, man´ly, man´liness; though in clustered words, with their first breath-sounds the same, the strain may shift for the sake of clearness, as ‘Give me the tea´pot’—the teakettle is given, and thereupon the bidder may say ‘the teaPOT´,’ not the teaKETTLE.
In Greek the accent shifts in word-building, and likes mainly to settle at about two times or short breath-sounds from the end of the word; and in Welsh it settles mostly on the last breath-sound but one, as eis´tedd, a sitting; eistedd´fod, a sitting-stead; eisteddfod´an, sitting-steads, or bardic sessions.
Besides the word-strain (accent) and the speech-strain (emphasis), there is a speech-tuning (modulation) of the voice (voice-winding), which winds up or down with sundry feelings of the mind, and with question and answers and changes of the matter of speech.
Things may be matterly (concrete) or bodies of matter, as a man, a tree, a stone; or
Things may be unmatterly (abstract), not bodies of matter, as faith, hope, love, shape, speed, emptiness.
It is not altogether good that a matterly and unmatterly thing should be named by the very same word, as youth, a young man, and youth, youngness.