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4. RHYTHM, PROSODY, TONE, LANGUAGE MUSIC 318 MINI-COURSE ON SPEECH AND SINGING Science of Sound, Chapter 16 Springer Handbook of Acoustics, Chapter 16 RHYTHM A STRIKING CHARACTERISTIC OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS ITS RHYTHM. ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, ARABIC AND THAI ARE STRESS-TIMED LANGUAGES. STRESSED SYLLABLES RECUR AT APPROXIMATELY EQUAL INTERVALS. SYLLABLES MOST OFTEN END WITH A CONSONANT. FRENCH, SPANISH, GREEK, ITALIAN, YORUBA AND TELEGU ARE SYLLABLE TIME LANGUAGES. SYLLABLES RECUR AT APPROXIMATELY EQUAL INTERVALS. SYLLABLES OFTEN END WITH A VOWEL. RHYTHMIC PATTERNS CAN BE USED TO SIGNAL