In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously...
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sports reporting but a negative prosody in hard news reporting. In recent years, linguists have used corpus linguistics and concordancing software to find...
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versification Prosody (linguistics), the study of suprasegmental elements of speech Prosody (music), the manner of setting words to music Prosody (software)...
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sentences. Affect (linguistics) Boundary tone (linguistics) Focus (linguistics) High rising terminal Prosodic unit Prosody (linguistics) Speech act Squiggle...
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paralinguistic functions. Overall the study of prosody has lagged other areas of linguistics. Within the study of English prosody, topics other than read speech and...
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Prosody is an essential part of spoken language, and learners need often need help to perceive and produce the prosody of a new language. Prosody is,...
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and transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a prosodic unit is a segment of speech that occurs with specific prosodic properties. These properties can...
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A prosodic construction is a temporal configuration of prosodic features that bears meaning. Prosodic features include pitch, intensity, duration, creaky...
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interpretation - Profanity - Prolative case - Pronoun - Pronunciation - Prosody (linguistics) - Proparoxytone - Pseudo-acronym - Pseudo-Anglicism - Psycholinguistics...
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Metre (poetry) (redirect from Prosody (poetry))
of metres and forms of versification are both known as prosody. (Within linguistics, "prosody" is used in a more general sense that includes not only...
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Persian metres (redirect from Persian prosody)
Finn (1982). A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic and Ottoman prosody. Wiesbaden. Deo & Kiparsky (2011), p. 7. See...
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Sanskrit prosody or Chandas refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse in Sanskrit. This...
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2010. Adapted from L.P. Elwell-Sutton (1975), "The Foundations of Persian Prosody and Metrics", Iran, Vol. 13 (1975), pp. 75-97; p. 80 (based on Weil 1958);...
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Vowel hiatus (redirect from Hiatus (prosody))
resolution". The Blackwell companion to phonology. Blackwell companions to linguistics series. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4051-8423-6...
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Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. It includes an individual's tone of voice...
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potentially present-day English, can have syllables with up to four morae. A prosodic stress system in which moraically heavy syllables are assigned stress is...
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In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language...
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Pausa (category Prosody (linguistics))
In linguistics, pausa (Latin for 'break', from Greek παῦσις, pâusis 'stopping, ceasing') is the hiatus between prosodic declination units. The concept...
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within sentences is called sentence stress or prosodic stress. That is one of the three components of prosody, along with rhythm and intonation. It includes...
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terminology and theory echoed in modern linguistics. Alexandrian grammarians also studied speech sounds and prosody; they defined parts of speech with notions...
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Phonological hierarchy (redirect from Prosodic hierarchy)
Clitic group (C) Phonological word (P-word, ω), sometimes also called the prosodic word Foot (F, φ or Σ) Syllable (σ) Mora (μ) Segment (phoneme) Feature The...
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Scale of vowels (category Prosody (linguistics))
low-frequency vowels described here are not the high vowels and low vowels of linguistics. Those are vowels where the tongue is high (as in "cool" and "key") or...
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Metalocutionary act (category Prosody (linguistics))
utterances by means of prosodic deictic indices such as pitch accents, intonation contours and boundary tones. In the prosodic literature, "mark" is often...
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Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 22 October 1945 Foregrounding Prosody (linguistics) Repetition (rhetorical device) Gary Blake and Robert W. Bly, The...
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prominent than the others. Most languages use pitch as intonation to convey prosody and pragmatics, but this does not make them tonal languages. In tonal languages...
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Boundary tone (redirect from Boundary tone (linguistics))
(2005) "German Intonation in Autosegmental-Metrical Phonology". Sun-Ah Jun Prosodic Typology: The Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing. Oxford University Press...
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Syllable (redirect from Final (linguistics))
Implications for a Prosodic Theory of Reduplication". In Borer, Hagit (ed.). The Proceedings of the Seventh West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. WCCFL 7...
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Extrametricality (category Prosody (linguistics))
In linguistics, extrametricality is a tool for prosodic analysis of words in a language. In certain languages, a particular segment or prosodic unit of...
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Elision (redirect from Deletion (linguistics))
In linguistics, an elision or deletion is the omission of one or more sounds (such as a vowel, a consonant, or a whole syllable) in a word or phrase....
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Metatony (category Prosody (linguistics))
In linguistics, metatony refers to the change of nature of accent (its intonation, or tone), usually within the same syllable. When the accent also changes...
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