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In every language, speech emission is based on a sequence of elementary sound units; some of them play a specific part: through their isochronic recurrence, they produce the rhythm of the sentences. In a stress-timed language, these rhythm units are stressed syllables. English is a stress-timed language; that is, stressed syllables appear at a roughly constant rate, and non-stressed syllables are shortened to accommodate this. Other languages have syllable timing (for example French and Finnish) or mora timing (for example Japanese), where syllables or morae are spoken at a roughly constant rate regardless of stress.
Some other examples of stress-timed languages are Germanic languages, like English and Dutch, Slavonic languages, like Russian and Czech, and some Romance languages. However, French and Spanish are syllable-timed languages (Grabe). Italian is generally considered syllable timed although there's evidence that some southern dialects are stress timed (Grice, et al. 1998).

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