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 | | In a stress timed language such as English, interstress intervals are found to vary greatly and, indeed, to exhibit as much or more variance as similar intervals in a syllable timed language such as French [14, 18] Numerous researchershave been led to the conclusion that isochrony (or.... |
 | | ....rhythmical units, that is, the isochrony of stresses for the former category and the isochrony of syllables for the latter. |
 | | Similarly, individual syllables are not isochronous in syllable timed languages (Pointon, 1980; Wenk Wioland, 1982) In a mora timed language such as Japanese (Hoequist, 1983) individual moras lack acoustical isochrony (Beckman, 1982) even though temporal regularity is found at the level.... |
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