Is Portuguese a stress-timed language?

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Is Portuguese a stress-timed language?

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2007-10-08 07:21:57 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages

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Yes

2007-10-08 07:29:35 · answer #1 · answered by Heathers 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

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In every language, speech emission is based on a sequence of elementary sound units. In a stress-timed language, these rhythm units are stressed syllables. English is a stress-timed language; that is, stressed syllables appear at a roughly constant rate, and non-stressed syllables are shortened to accommodate this.

Most languages are stress-timed. Examples are: Germanic languages, like English and Dutch, Slavonic languages, like Russian and Czech, and the other Romance languages (apart from French), like Spanish and Portuguese.

2007-10-08 16:56:50 · answer #2 · answered by The Corinthian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋