STRESS-TIMED


Meaning of STRESS-TIMED in English

/stres"tuymd'/ , adj. Phonet. (of a language)

having a rhythm in which stressed syllables tend to occur at regular intervals of time, regardless of the number of intervening unstressed syllables. Cf. syllable-timed .

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .