Talk:Stress-timed language

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I'd think that while Russian is truly stress-timed, Polish is rather syllable-timed. I can't say about other Slavic languages as I don't really know them. Zbihniew 22:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

The article states that "The Germanic and Slavonic languages are generally stress-timed" - what about Romance languages? How are langauges classified such as Czech where there is a phomenic difference between long and short vowels (otherwise syllable-timed)?

This is a hideous misrepresentation of the facts: all Slavonic languages are syllable-timed. The timing of Czech long vowels is simply two vowel-lengths, exactly like the so-called "Mora" timing in Japanese, where a "long" vowel is given two vowel lengths or a sonorant like "n" will have syllable articulation. [Thomas L. Moore, BA 1969, MA 1970 Slavic Languages, UCLA; visiting professor of English Syntax and Intonation, Udmurt State University, Izhevsk, Russia 1992-95]