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ELT Journal 1999 53(3):191-199; doi:10.1093/elt/53.3.191
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Is stress-timing real?

Jonathan Marks

A freelance teacher, teacher trainer, and writer based in Poland. He is co-author of The Pronunciation Book (Longman 1992), Inside Teaching (Heinemann 1994), Bridges 1 (Klett 1993), and a pronunciation course for Polish learners (forthcoming).

Although the notion of ‘stress-timing’ is often referred to in pedagogic models of English pronunciation, and forms the basis for some classroom materials for pronunciation development, there appears to be no hard evidence that it really exists. If stress-timing is a mere fiction, how did it arise, and why does it seem so plausible? Does it capture any real and pedagogically significant difference between English and certain other languages?


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