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English Pronunciation for CommunicationA Practical Course for Students of EnglishByWang GuizhenFaculty of English Language CultureGuangdong University of Foreign Studies;;Hypothesis: two types of meter in the world’s languages: Stress-timing and syllable-timing Stress-timing: Equal intervals between prominent syllables Prototypical languages: English, Dutch, German Syllable-timing Equal syllable durations Prototypical languages: French, Spanish All languages of the world are said to fall into one group or the other;But no acoustic evidence for meter in speech Stress-timed languages: intervals between stressed syllables not equal Syllable-timed languages: successive syllables not equal in length Nor are intervals between stressed languages more regular in stressed-than in syllable-timed languages But languages do sound rhythmically different - why?;Speech rhythm;Speech rhythm;Speech Rhythm;Two rhythm classes?;French;French;Tones in Mandarin;;;Rhythmic patterns: Chinese vs English;;Mark out the stressed syllables.;Chinese Rhythm ; 语言 项目;表：; ;ü ;;;;;类别 ;; The rhythmic patterns of Chinese and English Syllable-timed Stress-timed French Putonghua Spanish English Fig. 1: Chinese Putonghua on the rhythmic scale in relation to French, Spanish and English ;Fig 2: Duration for “里头”(litou), meaning “inside” ; Who’s coming to the birthday par- ty? By a non-native speaker of English.;Syllables;Fig. 6: The average syllable lengths for “dinner party” in “Who’s coming to the dinner party?”;; was at war Fig: “was at war” in the sentence “England was at war with America”.