Speakers of MLE speak with a syllable-timed rhythm, in which all syllables are accorded roughly the same time and stress, as in French or Japanese.
MLE的使用者则按照音节停顿，所有音节的语调基本一致，跟法语和日语大致相同。
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Syllable-timed speech is a characteristic of languages that have come into contact with other languages.
和其他语言相比，按音节停顿是其特点。
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Based on the features of stress-timed language and syllable-timed language, the author has a contrastive analysis on English-Chinese syllable, stress and rhythm.