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

See Examples For:

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

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 Baum, Paull Franklin

The Mirror as a whole has bibliographical and prosodic rather than literary interest.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

When his prosodic effects are obvious they lose their power; we can see how the trick is done and we do not marvel.

From The Principles of English Versification by Baum, Paull Franklin

But he has some piquancy of phrase, and is particularly noticeable for the variety, and to a certain extent the accomplishment, of his prosodic experiments—a point of much importance for the time.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George