stress-timed

stress-timed |strɛs taɪmd | ▶adjective (of a language ) characterized by a rhythm in which primary stresses occur at roughly equal intervals, irrespective of the number of unstressed syllables in between. English is a stress-timed language. Contrasted with syllable-timed.

stress-timed

stress-timed ▶adjective (of a language ) characterized by a rhythm in which primary stresses occur at roughly equal intervals, irrespective of the number of unstressed syllables in between. English is a stress-timed language. Contrasted with syllable-timed.