syllable timed

syl·la·ble-timed

[sil-uh-buhl-tahymd]
adjective Phonetics, (of a language)
having a rhythm in which syllables are approximately equal in duration and thus tend to follow each other at regular intervals of time.
Compare stress-timed.
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