Re: Planetary Linguistics

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Tommi Nieminen wrote:
> Yusuf B Gursey kirjoitti 18.8.2006 19:18:
>
> >>> IMHO french is more evenly accented and the loans from french are less
> >>> standoffish.
> >> The "evenly accented" part sounds strange. Certainly Istanbul Turkish
> >> is about as evenly stressed as standard French.
> >
> > that's my point. french is more evenly stressed than english.
>
> That sounds like the exact reversal of the usual descriptions, where
> English is stress-timed (i.e., stresses occur at *equal* intervals)
> while French is syllable-timed :)

Where's the reversal? Stress-timed translates in practice into unevenly
stressed  while "syllable-timed" is the result of an even distribution.