(Prosody) a system of versification.
The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
The study of poetic meter and the art of versification.
Part of linguistics concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments, but properties of syllables and larger units of speech.
1 No analysis of his prosody can explain the wonders of his workmanship.
2 As regards Björnson's prosody , I am aware that it is sometimes defective.
3 Subjects were asked to intone neutral-content sentences with happy, sad, and neutral prosody .
4 It also has an auditory system that detects prosody in speech.
5 She did not show the usual speech prosody and social deficits associated with NLD.
6 We could wish the capacities of our noble language in prosody were better understood.-ED
7 With this mechanism it has a program that matches certain prosody with specific emotions.
8 Again his choice seems to mostly be to focus on Obama's rhythm and prosody .
9 There he learned spelling and the rules of French prosody .
10 The prosody , which is the most important thing, is lacking.
11 The names are borrowed, not quite felicitously, from classical prosody .
12 They studied criticism, grammar, prosody and metre, antiquities and mythology.
13 A significant positive correlation was observed between the PAV and the speech prosody comprehension test.
14 Here creeps in an item interesting to our friends who revel in syntax and prosody .
15 There were no group differences in recognizing emotional prosody .
16 Surprisingly, groups did not differ on tasks of emotional semantics and prosody and associative emotional-learning.
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