The Classification of Languages and Dialects into Rhythm Classes and the Production of Non-native English Prosody

The world’s languages are generally classified into two categories on the basis of their rhythmic organization. The most well-known classification, proposed by Pike (1945), is the “stress-timed” language classification, in which stresses tend to recur at regular time intervals. English is one exampl...

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