word stress vs initial stress

word stress and initial stress both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
word stress	Yes	No	No	No
initial stress	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, initial stress is a hyponym of word stress; that is, initial stress is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than word stress:

word stress: the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
initial stress: An accent on the first syllable of a word.

Other hyponyms of word stress include rhetorical accent.

word stress (noun)	initial stress (noun)
the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word	An accent on the first syllable of a word.

word stress vs initial stress

word stress and initial stress both are nouns.

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