Syllable-timed language
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In every language, speech emission is based on a sequence of elementary sound units; some of them play a specific part: through their isochronic recurrence, they produce the rhythm of the sentences. In a syllable-timed language, these rhythm units are syllables.
However, such a classification should be used carefully, a spoken language being less settled than a written language ; thus the way the rhythm is produced may vary from one region to another, or with time.
Spanish, Italian, French and Catalan are examples of syllable-timed languages. Romance languages are generally syllable-timed. All Indian languages, such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Punjabi, etc are also syllable-timed languages.
The two other types of languages in this classification are:
See also
External links
- [Étude sur la discrimination des langues par la prosodie (pdf document)] (French)
- [Languages’ rhythm and language acquisition (pdf document)]
- [Supra-segmental Phonology (rhythm, intonation and stress-timing)]
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