Prosody
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Jump to: navigation, searchProsody (from Greek προσῳδία, prosōidía, “song sung to music; pronunciation of syllable”) may refer to:
- Prosody (linguistics) In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of a speaker; whether an utterance is a statement, a question, or a command; whether the speaker is being ironic or sarcastic; emphasis, contrast, and focus; or other elements of, the study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech
- Prosody (music), 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 is sung
- Prosody (poetry) In poetry, the meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse. Many traditional verse forms prescribe a specific verse meter, or a certain set of meters alternating in a particular order. Prosody is a more general linguistic term, that includes poetical meter but also the rhythmic aspects of prose, whether formal or informal. The scansion of a, the study of poetic meter
- Prosody (software), a Jabber/XMPP server
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