French (le fran?ais ( listen) or la langue fran?aise ) is a Romance language, belonging to the Indo-European family that is an official language in 29 countries, most of which form la francophonie ...
Catalan (/?k?t?l?n/; autonym: català or ) is a Romance language named for its origins in Catalonia, in what is northeastern Spain and adjoining parts of France. It is the national and only offic ...
Latin (Listeni/?l?t?n/; Latin: lingua latīna, IPA: ; the noun lingua, "tongue" and "language", and the adjective latinus, latina and latinum in its three genders, "Latin") is an ancient Italic lan ...
Japanese (日本語 Nihongo?, , ( listen)) is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japane ...
Mora (plural morae or moras; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing. The definition of a mora varies. Perhaps ...
Syllable timing In a syllable-timed language, every syllable is perceived as taking up roughly the same amount of time, though the absolute length of time depends on the prosody. Syllable-timed langua ...
In a syllable-timed language, every syllable is perceived as taking up roughly the same amount of time, though the absolute length of time depends on the prosody. Syllable-timed languages tend to give ...
In a stress-timed language, syllables may last different amounts of time, but there is perceived to be a fairly constant amount of time (on average) between consecutive stressed syllables. Stress-timi ...
Pitch accent is a linguistic term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that either use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word or have a contrast ...
Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All verbal languages use pitch to express emotional and other paralin ...
Isochrony is the postulated rhythmic division of time into equal portions by a language. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress and tempo of speech. Three alternative ways in ...
Scansion or a system of scansion (verb: to scan) is the act of determining and (usually) graphically representing the metrical character of a line of verse. In classical poetry, these patterns are bas ...
Jump to: navigation, search Iambic pentameter (from Greek: ?αμβικ?? πεντ?μετρο?, iambikos pentametros, meaning a measure with five iambs) is a commonly used type of metrical line in ...
In linguistics, intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the attitudes and emotions of the speaker, ...
In poetry, metre (meter in American English) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse metre, or a certain set of metres alt ...
