stress-timed
adj1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Of a language, such that syllables may last different amounts of time, but there is perceived to be a fairly constant amount of time between consecutive stressed syllables.
- As described in the discussion of stress and rhythm at the word level, stress-timed languages are those in which stressed syllables tend to occur at approximately equal intervals.2002, Dorothy M. Chun, Discourse Intonation in L2: From Theory and Research to Practice, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 170:
- Derived terms
- stress timing