emphasistend
Emphasistend is a term used in linguistics and communication studies to describe a cross-modal pattern in which emphasis is systematically anchored toward the end of a discourse unit. The concept synthesizes ideas from prosody, discourse marking, and multimodal communication to explain why final elements, such as words, phrases, or sentences, often carry heightened perceptual salience. The term is a neologism and is used mainly in theoretical discussions and analytic descriptions.
In spoken language, emphasistend tends to manifest as final-stress on a focal element, accompanied by elevated
Practically, researchers identify emphasistend by correlating prosodic measurements with syntactic position and with reader or listener
Applications of emphasistend appear in rhetoric analysis, educational linguistics, marketing copy, and the design of speech