| 单词 | stress-timed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstress-timed stress-timed adj. designating a language in which primary stresses occur at approximately equal intervals, irrespective of the number of unstressed syllables in between; opposed to syllable-timed adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > accent > stressed > occurrence of stresses at equal intervals isochronous1784 stress-timed1945 isochronic1956 1945 K. L. Pike Intonation Amer. Eng. iii. 35 Many non-English languages..tend to use a rhythm which is more closely related to the syllable than the regular stress-timed type of English. 1956 H. Whitehall in Kenyon Rev. 18 iii. 418 Unlike such ‘syllable-timed’ languages as Spanish, English is ‘stress-timed’ or isochronic. 1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 108 RP is stress-timed, with primary stress recurring at roughly even intervals through a sentence. 2017 E. Galacz et al. in T. Isaacs & P. Trofimovich Second Lang. Pronunc. Assessment ix 59 In stress-timed languages, stressed syllables are significantly longer than unstressed syllables. < as lemmas |
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