(of a language) characterized by a rhythm in which syllables occur at roughly equivalent time intervals, irrespective of the stress placed on them. French is a syllable-timed language.
（语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对
Contrasted with stress-timed
Example sentencesExamples
Kato et al., on the other hand, report acceptability experiments which suggest that Japanese may indeed be syllable-timed (or, strictly, ‘mora-timed’), so that lengthening a consonant sounds best if compensated by shortening of the following vowel, and vice versa.
I don't know much about this subject, but wikipedia says Finnish is a syllable-timed language, Japanese is mora-timed, and Dutch is stress-timed.
Japanese is a syllable-timed language with a pitch accent.
But an even more common error made by non-native speakers whose mother tongue is syllable-timed is not reducing function words and other unstressed syllables enough.
Native speakers do it automatically, but the speaker of a syllable-timed language who tries to learn a stress-timed language will probably have great trouble mastering the new arrangement of sound patterns.
The proponents of the traditional rhythm typology say that stress-timed and syllable-timed languages differ in several respects.
My data shows that, due to a less complex syllable structure in syllable-timed languages, c and v intervals are also produced at a far higher rate in these languages than in stress-timed languages.
Pronunciation difficulties of this kind are commonly found among those learners whose native tongues are syllable-timed and open-syllabled.
The teacher can show them a visual contrast between the two languages to indicate that Chinese is syllable-timed while English is stress-timed.
Learners whose mother tongue is phonemic or syllable-timed have particular problems.
Definition of syllable-timed in US English:
syllable-timed
adjectiveˈsɪləbəl taɪmd
(of a language) characterized by a rhythm in which syllables occur at roughly equivalent time intervals, irrespective of the stress placed on them. French is a syllable-timed language.
（语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对
Contrasted with stress-timed
Example sentencesExamples
Kato et al., on the other hand, report acceptability experiments which suggest that Japanese may indeed be syllable-timed (or, strictly, ‘mora-timed’), so that lengthening a consonant sounds best if compensated by shortening of the following vowel, and vice versa.
Pronunciation difficulties of this kind are commonly found among those learners whose native tongues are syllable-timed and open-syllabled.
Japanese is a syllable-timed language with a pitch accent.
My data shows that, due to a less complex syllable structure in syllable-timed languages, c and v intervals are also produced at a far higher rate in these languages than in stress-timed languages.
Learners whose mother tongue is phonemic or syllable-timed have particular problems.
I don't know much about this subject, but wikipedia says Finnish is a syllable-timed language, Japanese is mora-timed, and Dutch is stress-timed.
The proponents of the traditional rhythm typology say that stress-timed and syllable-timed languages differ in several respects.
The teacher can show them a visual contrast between the two languages to indicate that Chinese is syllable-timed while English is stress-timed.
Native speakers do it automatically, but the speaker of a syllable-timed language who tries to learn a stress-timed language will probably have great trouble mastering the new arrangement of sound patterns.
But an even more common error made by non-native speakers whose mother tongue is syllable-timed is not reducing function words and other unstressed syllables enough.