Stress-timed language

Stress timing

Stress-timing is sometimes called "Morse-code rhythm," but any resemblance between the two is only superficial. Stress-timing is strongly related to vowel reduction processes. English, Thai, (non-Swiss) German, Russian, Danish, Swedish, Catalan, Norwegian, Faroese, Dutch, European Portuguese, and (Iranian) Persian are typical stress-timed languages. Some stress-timed languages, for example Arabic, retain unreduced vowels.