The rhythmic systems of Burmese music may have been determined by the nature of our language, which is not accentual but tonal. Rhythm in English depends largely on differences of emphasis on the ...

Douglas Smith Source: Journal of Language, Culture, and Religion ‘This book provides a useful introduction to a neglected topic … this resource will help students of the Hebrew text gain an ...

He specializes in Phonology, Phonetics and Historical Linguistics. He is author of Basque Phonology (1991), Euskararen azentuerak [the accentual systems of Basque] (1997), and The Sounds of Spanish ...

This sort of transcription might be helpful if one wanted to look at how accentual or phonetic features might affect conversation. For example, if you look at line 12 and see [fɪləm], this is a ...