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Spanish as a “syllable-timed” language

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1986
Spanish has been characterized as “syllable-timed” as opposed to English and German, which have been called “stress-timed” languages. This report describes a search for phonetic correlates of the term “syllable-timed.” Measurements were made of the relative durations of the stressed and unstressed vowels in polysyllabic words spoken by four speakers of
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Phonological processing in a syllable-timed language with pre-final stress: Evidence from spanish speech error data

Language and Cognitive Processes, 1991
Abstract In previous studies on English and German slips-of-the-tongue, it was shown that consonants at the beginning of words are more susceptible to malfunction than in any other position and that segments belonging to stressed syllables are more vulnerable than those in unstressed syllables.
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A study of Māori English with special reference to syllable timing : a comparison of the spoken language of a representetive [sic] sample of Māori and Pākehā recorded in Christchurch.

1997
This Thesis examined features of Māori English, and in particular, those which relate to syllable-timing. The focus of the project is on the speech of a representative group of Māori and Pākehā recorded in Christchurch in 1993 and 1994. The project is chiefly interested in the speech of adolescents, but a group of Māori and Pākehā adults were also ...
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An analysis of the distribution of syllables in prosodic phrases of stress-timed and syllable-timed languages

Speech Prosody 2016, 2016
Jeena J Prakash, Hema A Murthy
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Using Random Forests to classify language as a function of syllable timing in two groups: children with cochlear implants and with normal hearing

INTERSPEECH 2023, 2023
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Spoken Language Identification Using Rhythmic Categorization: Syllable-Timed and Stress-Timed

2024 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM)
Spandan Dey, Goutam Saha
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Rhythm in stress-timed and syllable-timed languages: some general considerations

1986
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