stress-timed

English

Adjective

stress-timed (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics, phonetics) 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.
    Coordinate term: syllable-timed

Derived terms

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