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1. Word Stress

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   Stress-Timed Languages (e.g., English, German): These languages strive to maintain relatively equal intervals between stressed syllables, leading to the compression or lengthening of unstressed syllables (vowel reduction is common).
   Syllable-Timed Languages (e.g., Spanish, French): These languages allocate roughly equal duration to each syllable, regardless of stress status.
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