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Isochrony

Isochrony is a linguistic analysis or hypothesis assuming that any spoken language's utterances are divisible into equal rhythmic portions of some kind. Under this assumption, languages are proposed to broadly fall into one of two categories based on rhythm or timing: syllable-timed or stress-timed languages (or, in some analyses, a third category…

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Alternative division of time

Vowel reductionFrenchItalianSpanishRomanian
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History

ProsodyIntonationTempo of speechLanguageKenneth L. Pike
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Degrees of durational variability

BritishNorth AmericanIndian EnglishBrazilian standardRio Grande do Sul
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The stress-timing–syllable-timing distinction as a continuum

Dafydd GibbonBriony Williams
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The stress-timing–syllable-timing distinction as a continuum

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Isochrony

Nodes84
Edges83
Triples29
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02381
Components1

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Isochrony

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related to history · 18
Isochrony → Abercrombie, Arabic, As, Curwen, English, French, However, Kenneth, Pike, Prosodia Rationalis, Rhythm, Russian, Soames, Telugu, The, This, While, Yoruba
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Isochrony → linguistic analysis or hypothesis assuming that any spoken language's utterances are divisible into equal rhythmic portions of some kind

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language languages syllable-timed stress-timed syllable rhythm timing equal time stress-timing english also syllables portuguese two mora-timed speech may hypothesis spoken

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Isochronyis alinguistic analysis or hypothesis assuming that any spoken language's utterances are divisible into equal rhythmic portions of some kind0.90text
the mineiroinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
in central Minas Geraisinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
the paulistanoinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
of the northern coastinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
eastern regions of São Pauloinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
and the fluminenseinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
along Rio de Janeiroinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
Espírito Santoinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
eastern Minas Gerais as well the Federal Districtinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
are most frequently essentially stress-timedinstance ofwhile the southeastern dialects0.80text
Isochronyrelated to historyRhythm0.60section

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