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Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology

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2012
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Schiering, R., Bickel, B., & Hildebrandt, K. (2012). Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology. Language Typology and Universals, 65(2), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2012.0010

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In recent research on cross-linguistic differences in linguistic rhythm, it has been hypothesized that the traditional dichotomy ‘stress-timed’ versus ‘syllable-timed’ might be recast with respect to which level of the Prosodic Hierarchy constitutes the most prominent domain for the organization of prosodic structure. In this paper, we test the prediction that ‘stress-timed’ languages are characterized by a dominance of the prosodic word against a typological sample of 58 languages. Although there is a slight cross-linguistic tendency

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65

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2

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157

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168

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prosodic typology, linguistic rhythm, stress-timed language, prosodic word, Mon-Khmer

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English

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2012

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2013-02-01

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0942-2919

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Schiering, R., Bickel, B., & Hildebrandt, K. (2012). Stress-timed = word-based? Testing a hypothesis in Prosodic Typology. Language Typology and Universals, 65(2), 157–168. https://doi.org/10.1524/stuf.2012.0010

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