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Prosody
Timing, rhythm, and intonation of speech
In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech, including intonation, stress, rhythm and loudness, that occur simultaneously
Prosody_(linguistics)
Basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse
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
Metre_(poetry)
Term used in linguistics
Semantic prosody, also discourse prosody, describes the way in which certain seemingly neutral words can be perceived with positive or negative associations
Semantic_prosody
Concept in musical composition
In music, prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text
Prosody_(music)
The book Notes on Prosody by author Vladimir Nabokov compares differences in iambic verse in the English and Russian languages, and highlights the effect
Notes_on_Prosody
Aspect of Vedic studies
Sanskrit prosody or Chandas (Sanskrit: छन्दः) refers to one of the six Vedangas, or limbs of Vedic studies. It is the study of poetic metres and verse
Sanskrit_prosody
Prosody in English conveys many pragmatic functions relating to speech acts, attitude, turn-taking, topic structure, information structure and more. It
English_prosody
Prosody expressing emotion
Emotional prosody or affective prosody is the various paralinguistic aspects of language use that convey emotion. It includes an individual's tone of voice
Emotional_prosody
Cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua
Prosody (formerly lxmppd) is a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua. Its development goals include low resource usage, ease of use, and extensibility
Prosody_(software)
Linguistics concept
Prosodic bootstrapping (also known as phonological bootstrapping) in linguistics refers to the hypothesis that learners of a primary language (L1) use
Prosodic_bootstrapping
A prosodic construction is a temporal configuration of prosodic features that bears meaning. Prosodic features include pitch, intensity (perceived as
Prosodic_construction
Basic repeating rhythmic unit in a line of poetry
Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2025-03-25. Comprehensive list of feet and colas up to 12 syllables long Prosody Tutorial by H.T. Kirby-Smith
Metrical_foot
Segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour
transcription delimiters. In linguistics, a prosodic unit is a segment of speech that occurs with specific prosodic properties. These properties can be those
Prosodic_unit
System of phonetic notation
qualities of speech that are part of lexical (and, to a limited extent, prosodic) sounds in spoken (oral) language: phones, intonation and the separation
International Phonetic Alphabet
International_Phonetic_Alphabet
Language teaching technique
Prosody is an important component of spoken language, and learners need often need help to perceive and produce the prosody of a new language. Yet language
Teaching_prosody
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Biceps_(prosody)
Theory and practice of versification
Prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδίᾱ (prosōidíā), 'song sung to music', 'pronunciation of syllable')
Greek_prosody
Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a non-fiction book by the English literary critic Robert Bridges. It was first published
Milton's_Prosody
Linguistic emphasis on syllables or words
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
Stress_(linguistics)
Persian, Turkic and Urdu prosody
ʿarūż (from Arabic عروض ʿarūḍ), also called ʿarūż prosody, is the Persian, Turkic and Urdu prosody, using the ʿarūż meters. The earliest founder of this
Aruz
Japanese prosody
Japanese prosody
On_(Japanese_prosody)
Study of Latin poetic laws of metre
Latin prosody (from Middle French prosodie, from Latin prosōdia, from Ancient Greek προσῳδία prosōidía, 'song sung to music', 'pronunciation of syllable')
Latin_prosody
Poetic meter consisting of six feet
the mandatory dactyl in the fifth foot. Latin rhythmic hexameter Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Meters of Roman comedy Trochaic septenarius Brevis in longo
Dactylic_hexameter
Metres of Persian poetry
of syllables into three lengths: short, long, and overlong. In Persian prosody, an overlong syllable is metrically equivalent to a long syllable followed
Persian_metres
choriamb /ˈkɔːriˌæmb/ (Ancient Greek: χορίαμβος - khoriambos) is a metron (prosodic foot) consisting of four syllables in the pattern long-short-short-long
Choriamb
Literature of Anglo-Saxon England
tradition in early medieval England was accompanied by discourses on Latin prosody, which were 'rules' or guidance for writers. The rules of Old English verse
Old_English_literature
Metre in classical Arabic poetry
Julie Scott Meisami, Paul Starkey, 2 vols (London: Routledge, 1998), s.v. 'Prosody (‘arūḍ)'. W. Stoetzer, 'Rajaz', in Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature, ed
Rajaz
Prosody of Arabic poetry
"quiescent letter" (i.e. one not followed by a vowel) to build up larger prosodic units, which he called "peg" (watid or watad, pl. awtād) and "cord" or
Arabic_prosody
Syllabic separation of two adjacent vowels
In phonology, hiatus (/haɪˈeɪtəs/ hy-AY-təs) or diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -EER-; also spelled dieresis or diæresis) describes the
Vowel_hiatus
Typographical distinction
from the rest of the text, to highlight them. It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech. The most common methods in Western typography fall under
Emphasis_(typography)
Poetic device; use of an alien metric foot
In English poetry substitution, also known as inversion, is the use of an alien metric foot in a line of otherwise regular metrical pattern. For instance
Substitution_(poetry)
Feature of Latin and Greek poetic metre
and the sons of Pandu, what did they do, Sanjaya?" Prosody (Latin) Prosody (Greek) Arabic prosody Persian metres Catalectic Anceps cf. West, M. L., "Three
Brevis_in_longo
3rd–2nd century BC Indian mathematician and poet
author of the Chandaḥśāstra (Sanskrit: छन्दःशास्त्र, lit. 'A Treatise on Prosody'), also called the Pingala Sutras (Sanskrit: पिङ्गलसूत्राः, romanized: Piṅgalasūtrāḥ
Pingala
Italian linguist
Mariapaola D’Imperio is an Italian linguist known for her works on phonetics, prosody and laboratory phonology. D’Imperio received her Ph.D from Ohio State University
Mariapaola_D'Imperio
Metres used in Plautus and Terence
resolved element can occasionally contain a brevis brevians (see below). The prosody and grammar of Plautus and Terence differ slightly from that of later poets
Metres_of_Roman_comedy
Repeating 3 to 6-syllable section of a poetic metre
Finn (1982). A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic and Ottoman prosody. Wiesbaden, p. 73. Wright, W. (1862), A Grammar
Metron_(poetry)
Size hierarchy of phonological units
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
Phonological_hierarchy
2nd-century Roman-Egyptian grammarian and writer
favour of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, to whom he dedicated a work on prosody. Herodian was held in very high esteem by subsequent grammarians; Priscian
Aelius_Herodianus
Unusually formal speech
inappropriate formality. This formality can be expressed both through abnormal prosody as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic
Stilted_speech
Type of poetic stress pattern
given by Robert Bridges in 1921, in his Bridges' Prosody of Accentual Verse section of Milton's Prosody. Modern literary use includes W. H. Auden, and it
Accentual_verse
accent paradigm c. There is no consensus among linguists on the exact prosodical nature of late Proto-Slavic, or Common Slavic. Two different schools of
Proto-Slavic_accent
Inability to properly convey or interpret prosody
the inability of a person to properly convey or interpret emotional prosody. Prosody in language refers to the ranges of rhythm, pitch, stress, intonation
Aprosodia
Linguistics, Vol. 43, No. 1 (Mar., 2007), pp. 63-114. Prosody (Greek) Prosody (Latin) Metres of Roman comedy Arabic prosody Persian metres Brevis in longo
Anceps
The phonological word, or prosodic word (commonly shortened to pword, PrWd, or symbolised as ω) is a unit in the phonological hierarchy of words. It is
Phonological_word
Tamil prosody defines several metres in six basic elements covering the various aspects of rhythm. Most classical works and many modern works are written
Tamil_prosody
Concepts in poetic meter
In poetic meter, diaeresis (/daɪˈɛrəsɪs, -ˈɪər-/ dy-ERR-ə-siss, -EER-; also spelled diæresis or dieresis) has two meanings: the separate pronunciation
Diaeresis_(prosody)
Class of tetrasyllabic metrical feet
In prosody a paeon (or paean) is a metrical foot used in both poetry and prose. It consists of four syllables, with one of the syllables being long and
Paeon_(prosody)
Number
represent zero: 空, 零, 洞, 〇. Pingala (c. 3rd or 2nd century BC), a Sanskrit prosody scholar, used binary sequences, in the form of short and long syllables
0
Four-line stanza form
of the form since the Middle Ages typically feature rhyme and accentual prosody. It is "the longest lived of the Classical lyric strophes in the West"
Sapphic_stanza
Kannada prosody (Kannada: ಕನ್ನಡ ಛಂದಸ್ಸು, romanized: Kannaḍa Chandassu) refers to the distributions of meter, syllable timing, and verse length, among
Kannada_prosody
Emphasis on a note
indicated by an accent mark. Accents contribute to the articulation and prosody of a performance of a musical phrase. Accents may be written into a score
Accent_(music)
Rhythmic division of time in spoken language
regular speech may in fact be less intelligible. Rhythm is an aspect of prosody, others being intonation, stress, and tempo of speech. Isochrony refers
Isochrony
Poetic metre used in Ancient Greek and Latin
Finn (1982). A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic and Ottoman prosody. Wiesbaden; pp. 132, 263–4. Elwell-Sutton,
Sotadean_metre
Poetic form used by Greek lyric poets
and literary forms of the ancient world to contemporary themes. Elegiac Prosody (Latin) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2001). The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor
Elegiac_couplet
Historic period of Tamil literature
for the Sangam literature is 100 BCE to 250 CE, based on the linguistic, prosodic and quasi-historic allusions within the texts and the colophons. and recent
Sangam_literature
Artificial production of human speech
phonetic transcriptions to each word, and divides and marks the text into prosodic units, like phrases, clauses, and sentences. The process of assigning phonetic
Speech_synthesis
Romance language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the
Spanish_language
Condition involving social and behavioral differences
characteristics such as volume, rhythm, and intonation (prosody) can vary, and atypical prosody is estimated to occur in at least half of autistic children
Autism
Remapping of the IPA into ASCII
SAMPROSA in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The SAM PROSodic Alphabet (SAMPROSA) is a system for prosodic transcription, developed by Dafydd Gibbon, Daniel
X-SAMPA
Study of how humans produce and perceive sounds
lexical information in tonal languages, and many languages use pitch to mark prosodic or pragmatic information. For the vocal folds to vibrate, they must be
Phonetics
King of Scotland from 1567 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603
treatise Some Rules and Cautions to be Observed and Eschewed in Scottish Prosody in 1584 at the age of 18. It was both a poetic manual and a description
James_VI_and_I
Iraqi lexicographer, philologist and poet (718 – 786 CE)
(study of prosody), musicology and poetic metre. His linguistic theories influenced the development of Persian, Turkish, Kurdish, and Urdu prosody. The "Shining
Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi
Al-Khalil_ibn_Ahmad_al-Farahidi
Replacing long syllables with two shorts in poetry
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Resolution_(metre)
Meter used in Greek, Latin, and Persian poetry
Finn (1982). A Manual of Classical Persian Prosody, with chapters on Urdu, Karakhanidic and Ottoman prosody. Wiesbaden; pp. 132; 263–4. James Halporn,
Ionic_meter
Neurological condition, developmental or acquired
to a disorder in which one or more of the prosodic functions are either compromised or eliminated. Prosody refers to the variations in melody, intonation
Dysprosody
participant construct the scenarios. The growing interest in the interfaces of prosody with other areas, notably pragmatics, has led to an interesting cross-fertilization
Discourse-completion_task
Metrical feature found in Roman comedy
D. (1980). "Review Article: Latin Prosody and Meter: Brevis Brevians". Review of Latin-Romance Phonology: Prosodics and Metrics by Ernst Pulgram. Classical
Brevis_brevians
Metrical foot
referred to one of the feet of the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody: a short syllable followed by a long syllable (as in καλή (kalḗ) "beautiful
Iamb_(poetry)
Metrical foot
Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monometer Prosody (Latin) Substitution (poetry), Trochaic substitution Prosody (Greek) Trochaic septenarius Chisholm, Hugh
Trochee
Meter of poetry
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Iambic_trimeter
Official language of the country of Georgia
vowel system consists of five vowels with varying realizations. Georgian prosody involves weak stress, with disagreements among linguists on its placement
Georgian_language
American poetry award
The Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award is awarded to scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. The award was
Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award
Robert_Fitzgerald_Prosody_Award
Linguistics term
to whether it involves semantic bootstrapping, syntactic bootstrapping, prosodic bootstrapping, or pragmatic bootstrapping. In literal terms, a bootstrap
Bootstrapping_(linguistics)
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Asclepiad_(poetry)
Ancestor of Latin and other Italic languages
The Proto-Italic language is the ancestor of the Italic languages, most notably Latin and its descendants, the Romance languages. It is not directly attested
Proto-Italic_language
Poetic line of eleven syllables
feminine rhymes (as is the case with the Lusiads). This is due to Portuguese prosody considering verses to end at the last stressed syllable, thus the aforementioned
Hendecasyllable
British linguist
work on the pronunciation of British and Hong Kong English, and on speech prosody in atypical populations. Jane Setter attended Dane Court Grammar School
Jane_Setter
American linguist (1942–2023)
psycholinguistics, and her research interests included human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition. Born Janet Dean
Janet_Dean_Fodor
Poetry meters
syllabic-accentual, that is, based on patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Prosody, that is, the rules for deciding which syllables are short and which are
Greek_and_Latin_metre
Interconnect (PCI) product, the first combined trunk card and voice board – Prosody PCI. It was novel for its time, delivering up to 240 speech channels and
Aculab
Science of the sounds of language
phonetics is concerned with both segmental (chiefly vowels and consonants) and prosodic (such as stress, tone, rhythm and intonation) aspects of speech. While
Auditory_phonetics
Variation in pitch
pitch variation, its effects almost always work hand-in-hand with other prosodic features. Intonation is distinct from tone, the phenomenon where pitch
Intonation_(linguistics)
Meter in Arabic, Persian, Turkic and Urdu poetry
ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi, who established the foundational rules of Arabic prosody (ʿarūḍ). Essentially, a bahr is a specific rhythmic pattern defined by
Bahr_(poetry)
Arawakan language spoken in Peru
prominently in formal linguistic theory involving phonology (especially prosody including its stress) and morphology (Black 1991; Casali 1996, 2011; De
Axininca_language
Linguistic transcription convention
break indices) is a set of conventions for transcribing and annotating the prosody of speech. The term "ToBI" is sometimes used to refer to the conventions
ToBI
Poetic metre used in Catullus's poem 63
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Galliambic_verse
Sufi epic poem written in 1379 by Maulana Daud
Chandayan, or The Story of Chanda, is the first Hindi literary poem which established the genre of Sufi premkhyan or love story. It was written in 1379
Chandayan_(poem)
Sound in spoken language, articulated with an open vocal tract
loudness, and length. They are usually voiced and are closely involved in prosodic variation such as tone, intonation and stress. The nucleus, or "center"
Vowel
Latin epic poem by Virgil
journey Les Troyens List of literary cycles Odyssey Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 31 Prosody (Latin) Roman mythology Sinbad the Sailor The Voyage of Bran Gaskell, Philip
Aeneid
North Germanic language
vowel inventory consisting of 27 phonemically distinctive vowels, and its prosody is characterized by the distinctive phenomenon stød, a kind of laryngeal
Danish_language
Theatrical imitation of language
imitation of language used in satirical theatre, an ad hoc gibberish that uses prosody along with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements to convey emotional and
Grammelot
Poetic metre used in Greek and Latin, especially in Roman comedy
written in the 6th century AD, the hymn conforms exactly to the scansion and prosody of Classical Latin. A third, quite different, style of septenarius, is
Trochaic_septenarius
Specialization of some cognitive functions in one side of the brain
Function lateralization, such as semantics, intonation, accentuation, and prosody, has since been called into question and largely been found to have a neuronal
Lateralization of brain function
Lateralization_of_brain_function
American linguist
dialect perception, including cross-dialect lexical processing and regional prosodic variation in American English. Clopper holds a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
Cynthia_Clopper
Real-time text-to-speech AI tool
accessibility and emotional control but criticized its technical limitations in prosody options and non-English language support, with mixed results depending
15.ai
Dravidian language
requires immense memory power and an in-depth knowledge of literature and prosody, originated and was specially cultivated among Telugu poets for over five
Telugu_language
Greek and Latin metre Greek prosody Latin prosody Dactylic hexameter Elegiac couplet Alcmanian verse Archilochian Latin rhythmic hexameter Iambic trimeter
Dochmiac
Muskogean language from the US
The Chickasaw language (Chikashshanompaꞌ, Chickasaw pronunciation: [tʃikaʃːanompaʔ]) is a Native American language of the Muskogean family. It is agglutinative
Chickasaw_language
Greek and Latin poetic verse form
four longa, and sometimes the first foot might be an anapaest (u u –). Prosody (Latin) Murray (1903, p. 88). Raven, D. S. (1965), Latin Metre, p. 62.
Choliamb
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n.
A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.
a.
Of or pertaining to prosody; according to the rules of prosody.
n.
The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note [/] has the value of two eighth notes [/].
n.
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
n.
One skilled in prosody.
n.
A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.