Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress...

keeps correct time as its mainspring unwinds or chain length varies. Isochrony is important in timekeeping devices. Simply put, if a power providing...

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:...

Essex girl, as a pejorative stereotype in the United Kingdom, applies to a woman viewed as promiscuous and unintelligent, characteristics jocularly attributed...

reflect general changes around the Greek-speaking world, including vowel isochrony and monophthongization, but certain sound values differ from other Koine...

spoken at a roughly constant rate regardless of stress. For details, see isochrony. It is common for stressed and unstressed syllables to behave differently...

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...

end whipping about the inside of the clock, causing damage. Achieving isochrony was recognised as a serious problem throughout the 500-year history of...

varied from 168 (English, BBC) to 210 words per minutes (Spanish, RNE). Isochrony Laver, John (1994). Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge. p. 542. Laver...

whether the rhythm of the speaker is syllable-timed or mora-timed (see isochrony). Moreover, words lose their stress to varying degrees when pronounced...