Skip to 11:18 for the actual linguistics content. The earlier part includes analogy to film/video editing styles. The ad read is also in that earlier section.
Skip to 11:18 for the actual linguistics content. The earlier part includes analogy to film/video editing styles. The ad read is also in that earlier section.
One thing I would add is that this video made it seem as though English is relatively unique in being stress-timed. But there were comments under the video from speakers of a wide variety of languages, including Norwegian and German (which, combined with English, suggests perhaps this is an ancestral feature of the Germanic family?), as well as Ukranian and Russian. So it doesn’t seem to be quite as rare as the video (perhaps unintentionally) implied.
Indeed, it isn’t - it’s a really common feature across the world.
IMO it’s possible, but unlikely. Two reasons:
Makes sense. I suppose this very conversation is proof of that. Some people seem to be claiming some varieties of American English lack it, and certainly the video shows that the Influencer sociolect (if you can call it that) lacks it.