Word info

syllable-timed

Adjective

Meaning

syllable-timed (not comparable)

(linguistics) Of a language: such that every spoken syllable takes up more or less the same amount of time.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

West African English tends to be syllable-timed, and its phoneme inventory is much simpler than that of Received Pronunciation ; this sometimes affects mutual intelligibility with native varieties of English. Source: Internet

Prosody Spanish is classified by its rhythm as a syllable-timed language : each syllable has approximately the same duration regardless of stress. Source: Internet

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