I 'hear' only one stress in each. moMENtum [beat] syncoPATion [beat] rhythm-and-... | Hacker News

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teamonkey on June 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nobody. Understands. Punctuation.

I 'hear' only one stress in each.

moMENtum [beat] syncoPATion [beat] rhythm-and-PATtern [no beat so continues straight on]

And all three patterns, including the beat, take the same time, with the remainder of the sentence continuing at the same speed as PATtern.

Hello71 on June 9, 2014 [–]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rhythm: /ˈɹɪ.ð(ə)m/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pattern: /ˈpat(ə)n/ or /ˈpædəɹn/

teamonkey on June 9, 2014 | [–]

I do have an English (UK) accent if that helps. But of course it's not unusual to stress different syllables when reading poetry or prose for effect.

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