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Stress-timing and Syllable-timing

12/26/2014

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If you search for either of the above terms in Wikipedia, you are redirected to the article on Isochrony. This is, on the whole, a fair summary of what most people say on the subject. What it lacks, as far as I am concerned, is any mention of David Abercrombie's contributions to the subject, and an explanation of Rebecca Dauer's approach proposing a stress-timed to syllable-timed continuum. I intend to put this right in the next few days.


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Emilio Márquez link
12/26/2014 10:38:27 am

Thank you, Peter :-)

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Peter
12/29/2014 09:56:19 am

OK, that's done.

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dainichi
1/9/2018 02:04:48 am

New to this blog, looking forward to read through the posts!

One thing I haven't been able to find much info on is how syllable-timing works for languages with several levels of stress, like English (if one chooses to analyze it so). Do you know of any sources?

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