Spanish, however, seems to show no language-specific durational characteristics which could be claimed to be indicative of syllable timing.doi:10.1159/000261692HoequistJr.CharlesS. Karger AGPhoneticaHoequist, C., Jr.: Syllable duration in stress-, syllable-, and mora-timed languages. Phonetica 40...
Building on the results of a previous study, reiterant speech is used to test a number of durational characteristics of a stress-timed language (English), a syllable-timed language (Spanish) and a mora-timed language (Japanese). The results indicate that moras and stress feet do influence syl...
Japanese is often called a ‘mora-timed’ language, and contrasted with ‘stress- timed’ or ‘syllable-timed’ languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone several revisions, and a wide variety of experimental evidence both for and against mora-timing has been presented...
Phonetically, Japanese is mora-timed language but English is syllable-timed language. So many learners of Japanese as a second language can hardly produce this special mora. This paper describes a scoring system for pronunciation of Japanese special mora on the Internet using Java servlet. In the...
Japanese is often called a u2018mora-timedu2019 language, and contrasted with u2018stress- timedu2019 or u2018syllable-timedu2019 languages. The definition of what constitutes mora-timing has undergone several revisions, and a wide variety of experimental evidence both for and against mora-timing...
UNIVERSAL languageFOREIGN language educationVOWELSCONSONANTSA growing body of literature suggests that the world's languages can be classified into three rhythm classes: mora-timed languages, stress-timed languages, and syllable-timed languages. However, scholars cannot agree on which...
How well is English with mora-timed rhythm understood by a multilingual community?Tomokazu NakayamaSeoh Koon TanHoo Chun PekJournal of English as an International Language