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

He absorbed aesthetic theory from Edmund Burke, prosodic elevation from John Ruskin, and social description from John Dos Passos.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

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

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

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

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

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