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Definition of Prosody

Prosody
Prosody Pros"o*dy, n. [L. prosodia the tone or accent of a syllable, Gr. ? a song sung to, or with, an accompanying song, the accent accompanying the pronunciation; ? to + ? song, ode: cf. F. prosodie. See Ode.] That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.

Meaning of Prosody from wikipedia

- Look up prosody or prosodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Prosody may refer to: Prosody (Sanskrit), the study of poetic meters and verse in Sanskrit...
- In linguistics, prosody (/ˈprɒsədi, ˈprɒz-/) is the study of elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments (vowels and consonants) but...
- 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,...
- Semantic prosody, also discourse prosody, describes the way in which certain seemingly neutral words can be perceived with positive or negative ****ociations...
- Milton's Prosody, with a chapter on Accentual Verse and Notes is a book by Robert Bridges. It was first published by Oxford University Press in 1889,...
- 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...
- In music, prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the ****ignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text...
- 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...
- "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...
- Prosody (formerly lxmppd) is a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua. Its development goals include low resource usage, ease of use, and extensibility...