Аннотация:Rhythm of spoken prose is understood as the specific distribution of such segments as sounds, syllables, rhythmic groups etc. in time as well as their phonetic (qualitative and quantitative) expression. The results obtained give us an insight into the nature of accent in the languages in question and therefore, into their specific rhythmic organization. We would like to underline the fact that modern typological language studies are characterized by the three main directions of search – for universalities, for types and for individual specificity. The present study was carried out along the lines of this concept to solve such a problem as rhythm.