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Emphasis or emphatic may refer to:

• Emphasis (telecommunications), intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs.-frequency characteristics of the signal to reduce adverse effects of noise
• Emphasis (typography), visual enhancement a part of a text to make it noticeable
• Emphasis! (On Parenthesis), 2008 album by Stanton Moore Trio
• "Emphasis/Who Wants to Live Forever", 2002 single by After Forever
• Emphatic consonant, member of a phonological category of consonants in Semitic languages
• Cultural emphasis, alleged tendency of a language's vocabulary to detail elements of the speakers' culture
• Emphatic Diaglott, 1864 Bible translation by Benjamin Wilson

[edit] See also

• Prominence (disambiguation)
• Stress (disambiguation)
• Markedness, quality of a non-basic or less natural linguistic form

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