| From the way she pronounces the words, from how she runs syllables together so oddly, I guess that she doesn't understand what she sings. |
| In Samoan words all syllables are given equal timing with a slight accent placed on the penultimate syllable. |
| The rhythms of both Greek and Latin poetry are based on the quantitative length of syllables, not on stress accent as are English rhythms. |
| The schema would consist of an initial strong syllable followed by an unspecified number of weak syllables. |
| In phonetics, the sense of movement in speech consists of the stress, quantity, and timing of syllables. |
| The teacher then modulated the intonational contour until it corresponded to the first syllables of the word paleontologist. |
