Prosody (definition)

Prosody covers a wide variety of facts and phenomena related to stress, intonation, rhythm, and phrasing. Phonologically, prosody is the description of suprasegmental units like feet, syllables, and moras and the concepts associated with those units; phonetically, prosody involves the measurement of parameters like duration, amplitude, and formant frequencies. Prosody is known to help with the organization and planning of speech and provide cues during language acquisition and speech processing.

See Also

• Stress (definition)
• Intonation (definition)

External Links

The link below takes you away from the Gaelic Wiki to Wikipedia. Since wikipedia pages can be edited by anyone, they often contain inaccurate information. So be careful!

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosody_(linguistics)

References

• Ladefoged, D. (2010) A Course in Phonetics. 6th Edition. Wadsworth Publishing.
• Arvaniti, A. (2020, July 30). The Phonetics of Prosody. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics.
• http://liceu.uab.cat/publicacions/MATE_D1_1_6_Prosody/D11_6_Prosody.html