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单词 syllable-timed
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Definition of syllable-timed in English:

syllable-timed

adjective
  • (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.

    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.

    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.
 
 
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