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May 3, 2016 · In a stress-timed language, the stressed syllable in a certain word can move or change depending on how the word is used in a sentence or what other stressed syllables may be near it.
- Madeline M Conlen
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English language is called a stress timed language because the time taken to speak a sentence depends on the number of stressed syllables and not on the total numb er of...
This chapter gives an overview of English lexical stress, prominence and speech rhythm in OVEs, including theoretical approaches to their description, and includes suggestions for pedagogical approaches for the English language classroom.
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This articles explores the nature of sentence and word stress as well as rhythm, thus putting forward some feasible ways of training and acquiring a good English stress and rhythm in EFLT (English as Foreign Language Teaching). Key words: word stress; sentence stress; rhythm.
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syllable-timed languages (Spanish, Greek, and Italian), and of English as an example of stress-timed language, concluded that the duration of interstress intervals does not differ across the different languages. Rather, the timing of stresses reflects universal properties of rhythmic organization. Similar conclusions are
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Jan 1, 2008 · According to some accounts, the linguistic reality of stress-timing in English is questionable and the existence of this type of language rhythm is rejected as a perceptual illusion. In this article, the temporal characteristics of English are re-analysed in the light of current linguistic research, and a range of implications for pronunciation ...
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One of the most familiar distinctions in phonetics is that between STRESS-TIMED and SYLLABLE-TIMED languages. Many textbooks refer to this, but nowhere is the distinction as explicitly made as in Abercrombie (1967, p. 97), who writes: `As far as is known, every language in the world is spoken with one kind of rhythm or with the other . . .
