The Role of Suprasegmental Cues for the Discrimination of Languages and Dialects

Languages have been classified by linguists according to their rhythmic categories. Stress-timed languages are exemplified by English and Arabic, Syllable-timed languages by French and Mora-timed languages by Japanese. Recent work in this field has shown that listeners may use cues other than segmen...

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