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The English language is often referred to as stress-timed. This means that stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the length it takes to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the number of syllables itself.
English and German are examples of stress-timed languages, while Spanish and Cantonese are syllable-timed. In the classroom Learners whose first language is syllable-timed often have problems producing the unstressed sounds in a stress-timed language like English, tending to give them equal stress. See also: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk ...
Apr 25, 2024 · English is a 'stress-timed' language, which means the meanings of words can be altered significantly by a change in stress. Find out how to use the correct word stress and sentence stress in English to communicate like a native.
English is a stress-timed language, and one general rule of rhythm is that an equal amount of time is taken from one stressed syllable to the next.
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Within the scope of this study, a comparison will be made between syllable- timed languages and stress-timed languages, using Spanish and English as examples of each. To study the impact of rhythm, or timing, on second language acquisition a comparison will be made between the speaking rhythm of native speakers as well as non-native speakers. I h...
This study uses human research subjects and their natural speaking capabilities to measure and study the nature of the stresses they use in language. There were four participants, two native Spanish speakers and two native English speakers. This was a single-blind experiment because the subjects knew that the study had to do with their use of la...
Of the four subjects that were used in this research study, data from two of them is included below. Data from the other two speakers was consistent with what is shown below so for clarity, the excess data was omitted from this project. The recording of the native Spanish speaker reading in English was not included because it was outside the scop...
There are many methods by which a person acquires a second language which differ significantly depending on their age, location, and first language. But no matter the situation, language acquisition takes place in approximately the same way. There is a specific set of steps or benchmarks that a person reaches as he is learning a language. To und...
The data collected in this study has been useful in forming the conclusions made above, but the scope was rather limited. Repeating the same process with a larger number of speakers of both languages would allow for more statistically significant results as well as a wider subject pool providing more well-rounded results. Additionally, this study...
Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next. Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear in all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Cap. One day her mother said ...
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English is a stress-timed language. That means some syllables will be longer, and some will be shorter. Many languages, however, are syllable-timed, which means each syllable has the same length. Examples of syllable-timed languages: French, Spanish, Cantonese.
In stress-timed languages, there is a roughly equal amount of time between each stress in a sentence, compared with a syllable-timed language (such as French, Turkish and West Indian English) in which syllables are produced at a steady rate which is unaffected by stress differences.
