Talk:Stress-timed language

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]

I'm not so sure about this sentence: "Most languages are stress-timed." Does a typological survey of timing exist? 71.219.22.222 05:59, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Are ny of the Greek languages (historically) stress timed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.151.79.91 (talk) 13:44, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Surely this is wrong?
"most Romance languages are stress-timed" - like Spanish??? European Spanish at least is as syllable-timed as a machine gun.

HairyDan 23:40, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

A source who anyone who would like to rewrite this article
"Prosodic Typology: On the Dichotomy between Stress-Timed and Syllable-Timed Languages" by Antonio Pamies Bertrán http://elies.rediris.es/Language_Design/LD2/pamies.pdf

HairyDan 23:46, 11 November 2007 (UTC)