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Linguistics Isochrony Prosody Stress Intonation Syllable-Timed Stress-Timed Spanish Cantonese

In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of three aspects of prosody and refers to whether languages are syllable-timed or stress-timed. Syllable-timed languages like Spanish and Cantonese put equal time on each syllable, while stress-timed languages like English and Mandarin put equal time between stressed syllables with unstressed syllables adjusting. Narmour describes three categories of prosodic rhythmic patterns: additive patterns repeat the same duration, cumulative patterns are short-long, and countercumulative are long-short, with cumulative associated with closure and countercumulative with openness.

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Linguistics Isochrony Prosody Stress Intonation Syllable-Timed Stress-Timed Spanish Cantonese

In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of three aspects of prosody and refers to whether languages are syllable-timed or stress-timed. Syllable-timed languages like Spanish and Cantonese put equal time on each syllable, while stress-timed languages like English and Mandarin put equal time between stressed syllables with unstressed syllables adjusting. Narmour describes three categories of prosodic rhythmic patterns: additive patterns repeat the same duration, cumulative patterns are short-long, and countercumulative are long-short, with cumulative associated with closure and countercumulative with openness.

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In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of the three aspects of prosody, along with stress and intonation.

Languages can be categorized according to whether they are syllabletimed or stress-timed. Speakers of syllable-timed languages such as Spanish and Cantonese put roughly equal time on each syllable; in contrast, speakers of stressed-timed languages such as English andMandarin Chinese put roughly equal time lags between stressed syllables, with the timing of the unstressed syllables in between them being adjusted to accommodate the stress timing. Narmour describes three categories of prosodic rules which create rhythmic successions which are additive (same duration repeated), cumulative (short-long), or countercumulative (long-short). Cumulation is associated with closure or relaxation, countercumulation with openness or tension, [33] while additive rhythms are open-ended and repetitive. Richard Middleton points out this method cannot account for syncopation and suggests the concept of transformation.
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