| Speakers of MLE speak with a syllable-timed rhythm, in which all syllables are accorded roughly the same time and stress, as in French or Japanese. |
| These reductions are only evident in the time series after the introduction of the syllable-timed speech treatment procedure. |
| The teacher can show them a visual contrast between the two languages to indicate that Chinese is syllable-timed while English is stress-timed. |
| I don't know much about this subject, but wikipedia says Finnish is a syllable-timed language, Japanese is mora-timed, and Dutch is stress-timed. |
| The proponents of the traditional rhythm typology say that stress-timed and syllable-timed languages differ in several respects. |
| Pronunciation difficulties of this kind are commonly found among those learners whose native tongues are syllable-timed and open-syllabled. |
