stress-timed

However, it should not be assumed that all varieties of English are stress-timed in this way.

It must be pointed out, however, that the evidence for the existence of stress-timed rhythm is not strong.

It follows from what was said earlier that in a stress-timed language all the feet are supposed to be of roughly the same duration.

English is claimed to be a stress-timed language.

Some southern dialects of Italian, a syllable-timed language, are effectively stress-timed.

Singlish is syllable-timed compared to most traditional varieties of English, which are usually stress-timed.

European Portuguese is more stress-timed than the Brazilian standard.

Standard American English is stress-timed, meaning that only stressed syllables are evenly timed.

Some stress-timed languages, for example Arabic, retain unreduced vowels.

English, Russian and, generally, German are stress-timed languages.

It cannot be described as a Stress-timed language nor as a Tonal language.

In terms of rhythm, English is generally described as a stress-timed language, meaning that the amount of time between stressed syllables tends to be equal.

Pākehā English is beginning to adopt similar rhythms, distinguishing it from other stress-timed English accents.

Also, male speakers of Brazilian Portuguese speak faster than female speakers and speak in a more stress-timed manner.

Bundjalung is a stress-timed language and is quantity-sensitive, with stress being assigned to syllables with long vowels.

At fast speech rates, Brazilian Portuguese is more stress-timed, while in slow speech rates, it can be more syllable-timed.

English is classed as a stress-timed language, which means that there is a tendency to speak so that the stressed syllables come at roughly equal intervals.

Contrasting with stress-timed languages such as English, in syllable-timed languages such as French, a foot is a single syllable.

Languages having the latter properties (i.e., languages that are not stress-timed) include Ancient Greek, Latin and Hungarian.

European Portuguese is a stress-timed language, with reduction, devoicing or even deletion of unstressed vowels and a general tolerance of syllable-final consonants.

As stress-timed metre is totally alien to syllable-timed metre (it is argued), the whole idea of metre might as well be discarded.

T.F. Mitchell claimed that there is no language which is totally syllable-timed or totally stress-timed; rather, all languages display both sorts of timing.

This L1 characteristic might interfere with Japanese speakers' perception and production of English, which is a stress-timed language and might be free of such durational restrictions.

The stress-timed rhythm theory states that the times from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same, irrespective of the number of intervening unstressed syllables.

His data show that, for example, Dutch (traditionally classed as a stress-timed language) exhibits a higher PVI than Spanish (traditionally a syllable-timed language).