stress-timed
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stress-timed adjective
- Of a language: such that syllables may last different amounts of time, but there is perceived to be a fairly constant amount of time between consecutive stressed syllables.
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sigmaticaccentualstaccatosynarteticacutedmonotonicsemantosyllabicstoppedpunctuatedsyllabificatingsonantenregisteredsyllabicstylisedcircumflexedlanguagey
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