prosodic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to poetic meter and versification.
She provided an analysis of the epics based on narrative style, prosodic structure, and her observation of how they were recited.
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Linguistics. of or relating to patterns of stress, intonation, etc..
In the text-to-speech software, he showed us how to manipulate prosodic features such as duration, pitch, and stress for greater realism.
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Etymology
Origin of prosodic
First recorded in 1760–65; prosod(y) ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )
Example Sentences
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But the intellectual strut and prosodic perplexities of many of the scoffers left all but a few U.S. readers unmovedd.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is, of course, fair to remember that Anglo-Saxon verse—now, according to the orthodox, to be ranked among the strictest prosodic kinds—was long thought to be as formless as this.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Probably nothing better illustrates the formal dependence of literature on language than the prosodic aspect of poetry.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
The poet's ear and his sixth prosodic sense enable him to make his verse a perfect vehicle of his meaning and emotion.
From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin
The same prosodic objection does not apply to such parallel locutions as what did and when did.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
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