SPANISH RHYTHM (Héctor Ortiz Lira)

Spanish rhythm has some characteristics in common with english.As explained before , very much the same types of words- content,as opposed to structural are liable to be accented in spanish.This to easily identifiable rhythmic groups, each one containing an accented syllable with or without the addition of unaccented ones.Furthermore, the number of accents in an utterance can be reduced as tempo is quickened, 

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One of the differences between English an Spanish rhythm lies the fact that spanish vowel weakening in terms of quality and quantity is very slight compared with English.A further difference can be seen in Spanish polysyllabic words, wich may take extra stresses apart from those that would normally occur in the citation form, thus producing an affected or emphatic rhythm E.g

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