prosodic

American  

[pruh-sod-ik] / prəˈsɒd ɪk /

Rarely prosodical

adjective

1. 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.

2. 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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Other Word Forms

• prosodically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of prosodic

First recorded in 1760–65; prosod(y) ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )

Example Sentences

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prosodic

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

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 Edward Sapir

Critically, they are nothing; but historically, they dominated the popular prosodic thought of the eighteenth century.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Edward Bysshe

But a frequent kind of repetition which is truly a prosodic phenomenon and which, though primarily an element of stanzaic form, has often an effect analogous to those just described, is the refrain.

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum

There is, to be sure, an arcanum of prosodic theory which is the province of specialists.

From The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum