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stress-timed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of a language, such that syllables may last different amounts of time, but there is perceived to be a fairly constant amount of time between consecutive stressed syllables.
    • As described in the discussion of stress and rhythm at the word level, stress-timed languages are those in which stressed syllables tend to occur at approximately equal intervals. 2002, Dorothy M. Chun, Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:

Coordinates

syllable-timed

Deriveds

stress timing

Translations (1)

de akzentzählend (Translations)