• Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress...
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  • keeps correct time as its mainspring unwinds or chain length varies. Isochrony is important in timekeeping devices. Simply put, if a power providing...
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  • the timing of successive units of speech, a regularity referred to as isochrony, and that every language may be assigned one of three rhythmical types:...
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    Essex girl, as a pejorative stereotype in the United Kingdom, applies to a woman viewed as promiscuous and unintelligent, characteristics jocularly attributed...
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  • reflect general changes around the Greek-speaking world, including vowel isochrony and monophthongization, but certain sound values differ from other Koine...
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  • spoken at a roughly constant rate regardless of stress. For details, see isochrony. It is common for stressed and unstressed syllables to behave differently...
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  • Conlon Nancarrow wrote for the player piano. In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of the three aspects of prosody, along with stress and intonation...
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  • whether the rhythm of the speaker is syllable-timed or mora-timed (see isochrony). Moreover, words lose their stress to varying degrees when pronounced...
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  • speak so that the stressed syllables come at roughly equal intervals. See Isochrony § Stress timing. Certain vowel sounds in English are associated strongly...
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  • pronunciation Russification Shibboleth — Slavic languages Stress (linguistics) Isochrony — Titlo T-V distinction Unstressed vowel — Untranslatability Zaum...
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