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.
（语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对
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.
（语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对
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.

词汇	syllable-timed
释义	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. （语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对 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. （语言有）音节节拍的。与STRESS-TIMED 相对 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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