Abstract
The widespread supposition that French is “syllable-timed” is examined closely and found, in the light of instrumental and perceptual evidence, to deny just those facts which make it possible to speak and understand the language. An attempt is made to discover those features of linguists’ conceptual and perceptual systems which conspire to straitjacket standard French into such a framework. Finally, an analysis proceeding from a set of principles that govern temporal relations at the abstract rhythmic level is seen to explain a range of significant facts in the language and so to support a proposed alternative typology.
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