Title: Stress and Rhythm

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English is a stress-timed language, while French is syllable-timed

In stress-timed languages,  the accented or stressed syllables are pronounced at regular intervals while the unstressed syllables are shortened to keep the rhythm.  .

Content words or lexical words are the words in a sentence that contain or convey information. These wwords are nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.

In words of more than one syllable, only one syllable is stressed. The stressed syllable is more dynamic, longer, louder, and higherin pitch

In phonetics, the stress (accent)  is indicated by an apostrophe  (') before the stressed syllable /'sɪləbl/

Unstressed vowel sounds are usually pronounced in their weak forms, and very often with a SCHWA sound /ə/