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Meanings of prosody in English

Catalan
prosòdia

(Prosody) a system of versification.

prosòdia
Portuguese
prosódia
Catalan
prosòdia

The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.

prosódia
Catalan
mètrica
Spanish
métrica

The study of poetic meter and the art of versification.

mètrica
Russian
просодика
Portuguese
prosódia
Spanish
prosodia
Catalan
prosòdia

Part of linguistics concerned with elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments, but properties of syllables and larger units of speech.

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просодика
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Examples for "metrics"
Examples for "metrics"
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Neighboring New Jersey has also seen coronavirus metrics improve in recent weeks.
Reuters
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The result is that financial assets are expensive by many standard metrics.
Reuters
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It is, however, crucial to our debt metrics and our borrowing power.
The Irish Times
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Therefore, they could be useful dose metrics for risk assessment and management.
Pubmed
5
Small changes in mean heart rate were seen with all exposure metrics.
Pubmed
Usage of prosody in English
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No analysis of his prosody can explain the wonders of his workmanship.
Milton
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As regards Björnson's prosody, I am aware that it is sometimes defective.
Essays on Scandinavian Literature
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Subjects were asked to intone neutral-content sentences with happy, sad, and neutral prosody.
Pubmed
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It also has an auditory system that detects prosody in speech.
Human
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She did not show the usual speech prosody and social deficits associated with NLD.
Pubmed
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We could wish the capacities of our noble language in prosody were better understood.-ED
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5
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With this mechanism it has a program that matches certain prosody with specific emotions.
Human
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Again his choice seems to mostly be to focus on Obama's rhythm and prosody.
Wired
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There he learned spelling and the rules of French prosody.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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The prosody, which is the most important thing, is lacking.
Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, E...
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The names are borrowed, not quite felicitously, from classical prosody.
The Principles of English Versification
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They studied criticism, grammar, prosody and metre, antiquities and mythology.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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A significant positive correlation was observed between the PAV and the speech prosody comprehension test.
Pubmed
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Here creeps in an item interesting to our friends who revel in syntax and prosody.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 / Little J...
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There were no group differences in recognizing emotional prosody.
Pubmed
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Surprisingly, groups did not differ on tasks of emotional semantics and prosody and associative emotional-learning.
Pubmed
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Translations for prosody
Portuguese
prosódia
Prosody through the time