Phonetica · 1983 · 75 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsSpanishComparative LinguisticsPhonologyPsycholinguisticsRhythm PerceptionSpanish PhoneticsSpanish PsycholinguisticsSuprasegmental PhoneticsSyllable StructureTemporal StructureSpeech Rhythm TypologySyllable Timing
Abstract Experimental investigations into the reality of impressionistic rhythm categories of language (stress-timing, syllable-timing and mora-timing) have usually tested extreme models of rhythm types. A comparative study of durational characteristics in Spanish (syllable-timed) and Japanese (mora-timed) confirm the absence of a strict isochronic rhythm but yield evidence fitting a less strict hypothesis of rhythm categories.