Syllable Duration in Stress-, Syllable- and Mora-Timed Languages

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>Building on the results of a previous study, reiterant speech is used to test a number of durational characteristics of a stress-timed language (English), a syllable-timed language (Spanish) and a mora-timed language (Japanese). The results indicate that moras and stress feet do influence syllable duration in their respective languages, Japanese and English. Spanish, however, seems to show no language-specific durational characteristics which could be claimed to be indicative of syllable timing.</jats:p>

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  • Phonetica

    Phonetica 40 (3), 203-237, 1983-05-01

    Walter de Gruyter GmbH

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