Marks placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation (7)

I believe the answer is:

accents

(Other definitions for accents that I've seen before include "Brogues" , "Strongly contrasting details" , "Dialects, articulations" , "graves?" , "Stresses" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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