rhythmus definition
rhythmus which means „flow‟. Rhythm is generally described as the pattern of accented and unaccented stressed and unstressed syllables in a language. Rhythm implies the recurrence of an event at regular intervals in time. It is a suprasegmental feature that constitutes an integral component of spoken English. The term „rhythm‟ is viewed in phonetics as the perceived regularity of prominent units in speech, it reflects in the pattern formed by „stressed and unstressed syllables‟, „syllable length‟ (long/short) or pitch (high/low), or a combinations of some of these variables (Crystal, Quirk and Greenbaum, 1987; Wales, 1989; Crystal, 1991; Roach, 2010).