syllable-timed

French, on the other hand, is a "syllable-timed" language, without the same kind of rhythm, just putting however many syllables into a breath.

l'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day 2009

For instance, when learners of a syllable-timed language are first taught that English is a stress-timed language and have the chance to practise it in class, they can then go home and watch a movie on cable TV (or even online) to see whether they can notice the difference.

P is for Pronunciation « An A-Z of ELT 2010

If Spanish is syllable-timed, how do we achieve equal lengths for these lines?

Spanish rhythm | Linguism | Language Blog 2010

French, on the other hand, is a "syllable-timed" language, without the same kind of rhythm, just putting however many syllables into a breath.

l'accent tonique - French Word-A-Day 2009

And of course in rapping we regularly get a distinctive accent, because of the syllable-timed rhythm.

On singing accents DC 2009

And of course in rapping we regularly get a distinctive accent, because of the syllable-timed rhythm.

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Traditionally, since the days of Arthur Lloyd James and Kenneth Lee Pike, languages have been divided into two broad types: syllable-timed and stress-timed.

Linguistic Rhythm | Linguism 2008

French was considered the archetypal syllable-timed language Lloyd James called this ‘machine gun rhythm’, in which each syllable had a similar duration, and English, probably the language whose rhythm has been studied most intensively, and mostly by native English speakers, the archetypal stress-timed language, in which stresses occur at approximately equal intervals of time.

Linguistic Rhythm | Linguism 2008

I DID suggest that across the languages of the world there may be more than the two types traditionally described as “syllable-timed” and “stress-timed”.

Linguistic Rhythm | Linguism 2008

Japanese is probably the most perfect example of a syllable - timed language, but French and Brazilian Portuguese are also syllable-timed while Russian and English are markedly stress-timed languages.

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