syllable-timed

Most Romance languages (of which Spanish is one) are syllable-timed.

Some southern dialects of Italian, a syllable-timed language, are effectively stress-timed.

Singlish is syllable-timed compared to most traditional varieties of English, which are usually stress-timed.

Spanish is usually considered a syllable-timed language.

Languages can be categorized according to whether they are syllable-timed, mora-timed, or stress-timed.

French, Spanish and Swedish are examples of syllable-timed languages.

Indian native languages are actually syllable-timed languages, like Latin and French.

Syllable-timed languages tend to give syllables approximately equal stress, and do not generally have reduced vowels.

Spanish is classified by its rhythm as a syllable-timed language: each syllable has approximately the same duration regardless of stress.

More recent research claims that the duration of consonantal and vocalic intervals is responsible for syllable-timed perception.

Such languages are often called syllable-timed languages.

Spanish is also syllable-timed.

This does not necessarily mean the language standard itself is to be classified as syllable-timed, of course, but rather that this feature is more pronounced.

Vowels in unstressed syllables keep their full quality, giving rise to a syllable-timed rhythm (see Isochrony).

A subtle example is that to a native English speaker, for example, some accents from Wales may sound more syllable-timed.

At fast speech rates, Brazilian Portuguese is more stress-timed, while in slow speech rates, it can be more syllable-timed.

The rhythm tends to be syllable-timed, meaning syllables take up roughly the same amount of time with roughly the same amount of stress.

Contrasting with stress-timed languages such as English, in syllable-timed languages such as French, a foot is a single syllable.

Syllable-timed languages include Latin, Catalan, French, Leonese, Galician and Spanish.

In a syllable-timed language, every syllable is perceived as taking up roughly the same amount of time, though the absolute length of time depends on the prosody.

As stress-timed metre is totally alien to syllable-timed metre (it is argued), the whole idea of metre might as well be discarded.

T.F. Mitchell claimed that there is no language which is totally syllable-timed or totally stress-timed; rather, all languages display both sorts of timing.

Another category of languages are syllable-timed, which means that each syllable takes about the same amount of time, regardless of the position of the stresses in the sentence.

Romanian is one of the syllable-timed languages, along with other Romance languages (French, Spanish, etc.), Telugu, Yoruba, and many others.

His data show that, for example, Dutch (traditionally classed as a stress-timed language) exhibits a higher PVI than Spanish (traditionally a syllable-timed language).