Isochrony

Isochrony is the idea that a leid rhythmically divides time intae equal portions. Three types o diveesions are postulatit:

1. the temporal duration atween twa stressed seellables is equal (stress-timed);
2. The duration o ivery seellable is equal (seellable-timed);
3. the duration o ivery mora is equal (mora-timed).

The idea wis first expressed bi Ken Pike in 1945. While mony linguists find the idea o different rhythm types appealin, empirical studies hae no been able tae fynd acoustic correlates o the postulatit types, cawin intae quaisten the validity o thir types.^[1][2][3]

1. ↑ Mark Liberman (5 Mey 2008). "Slicing the syllabic bologna". Language Log.
2. ↑ Mark Liberman (6 Mey 2008). "Another slice of prosodic sausage". Language Log.
3. ↑ Antonio Pamies Bertrán. "Prosodic Typology: On the Dichotomy between Stress-Timed and Syllable-Timed Languages" (PDF).