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US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(stres′tīmd′)

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stress-timed (stres′tīmd′),USA pronunciation adj. [Phonet.](of a language)

Phoneticshaving 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.

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pronunciation: pull next syllable into the previous one [stress-timed vs syllable-timed speech]

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