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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.
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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”.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - RHYTHM See a graphic representation: In stress-timed languages the difference between a stressed and an unstressed syllable is bigger.
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According to rhythm, languages are classified in syllable-timed and stress-timed.
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PHONOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - RHYTHM In stress-timed languages like English rhythm is based on stressed syllables of certain words that occur at apparently irregular intervals when we look at the written sentence.
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According to rhythm, languages are classified in syllable-timed and stress-timed.
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