The word 'prosody'comes from ancient Greek, where it was used for a “song sung with
instrumental music”. In later times the word was used for the “science of versification” and …

This chapter contains a general introduction to the concepts of prosody, described primarily
from a phenomenological point of view. Definitions of prosody are discussed, descriptions of …

The Prosody of Speech: Timing and Rhythm Page 1 Part IV Linguistic Phonetics The
Handbook of Phonetic Sciences: Second Edition Edited by William J. Hardcastle, John Laver …

The place of prosody in language is, as the introduction to the present volume recounts, one
of the most regularly disputed topics in linguistics. The question at issue is: must prosody be …

If prosody is understood to comprise the'musical'attributes of speech1-auditory effects such
as melody, dynamics, rhythm, tempo and pause-then it is surely no exaggeration to state that …

Since in various studies the term “prosody” has been used in a variety of ways, we will begin
by clarifying our use of it in this contribution. We include under “prosodic phenomena” any …

This investigation examined whether speakers produce reliable prosodic correlates to
meaning across semantic domains and whether listeners use these cues to derive word …

In this important study, AM Devine and Laurence D. Stephens interpret the evidence of
Greek verse texts, inscriptions, and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody …

Prosody is the sauce of the sentence—it adds to, enhances or subtly changes the flavour of
the original. And like a good sauce, the realization of a sentence's prosodic structure is a …

Prosody conveys information about the linguistic context of an utterance at every level of
linguistic organisation, from the word up to the discourse context. Acoustic correlates of …