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

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Etymology

Origin of prosodic

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

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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

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 George Saintsbury

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

They are ruder in form; and alternately rhymed, or distinguished from prose only by a certain irregular but prosodic measure, sometimes trochaic, but mostly dactylic.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

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

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