Isochrony is, in any given language, the assumed or theoretical division of time into equal rhythmic portions. Under this hypothesis, languages are proposed...
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keeps correct time as its mainspring unwinds or chain length varies. Isochrony is important in timekeeping devices. Simply put, if a power providing...
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Essex girl (section Isochrony)
Essex girl, as a pejorative stereotype in the United Kingdom, applies to a woman viewed as promiscuous and unintelligent, characteristics jocularly attributed...
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the timing of successive units of speech, a regularity referred to as isochrony, and that every language may be assigned one of three rhythmical types:...
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reflect general changes around the Greek-speaking world, including vowel isochrony and monophthongization, but certain sound values differ from other Koine...
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Conlon Nancarrow wrote for the player piano. In linguistics, rhythm or isochrony is one of the three aspects of prosody, along with stress and intonation...
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varied from 168 (English, BBC) to 210 words per minutes (Spanish, RNE). Isochrony Laver, John (1994). Principles of Phonetics. Cambridge. p. 542. Laver...
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speak so that the stressed syllables come at roughly equal intervals. See Isochrony § Stress timing. Certain vowel sounds in English are associated strongly...
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end whipping about the inside of the clock, causing damage. Achieving isochrony was recognised as a serious problem throughout the 500-year history of...
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whether the rhythm of the speaker is syllable-timed or mora-timed (see isochrony). Moreover, words lose their stress to varying degrees when pronounced...
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" McCone describes the new system as a case of what Martinet termed 'isochrony', "the condition that arises from the elimination of the phonemic feature...
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pronunciation Russification Shibboleth — Slavic languages Stress (linguistics) Isochrony — Titlo T-V distinction Unstressed vowel — Untranslatability Zaum...
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(1987–2007), an American Thoroughbred racehorse Rhythm (linguistics) or isochrony Rhythm (liqueur), a citrus flavoured liqueur Rhythm (literary magazine)...
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(2): 123–138. doi:10.2307/306765. JSTOR 306765. Timberlake, Alan. 1993. Isochrony in Late Common Slavic. In Robert A. Maquire and Alan Timberlake (eds.)...
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the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius (1929, master's thesis: Vilnius Isochrony). In Warsaw, she continued her scouting activities. She headed the Scout...
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Merker, G. Madison & P. Eckerdal (2009): "On the role and origin of isochrony in human rhythmic entrainment." In: Cortex 45: 4-17. B. Merker (2007):...
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