stress-timed language

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• stress-timed — /stres tuymd /, adj. Phonet. (of a language) having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables. Cf. syllable timed. * * * stress timed UK US… …   Useful english dictionary

• stress-timed — UK / US adjective linguistics in a stress timed language, there is a regular pattern of stressed syllables See: syllable timed …   English dictionary

• stress-timed — /stres tuymd /, adj. Phonet. (of a language) having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables. Cf. syllable timed. * * * …   Universalium

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