prosody
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Other parameters come into play, such as prosody, which includes pauses, accentuation and intonation.
From Science Daily • Dec. 19, 2023
This juxtaposition is far from coincidental, as the researchers' experiments revealed that dog brains respond in the same positive ways to exaggerated prosody as our very own infants.
From Salon • Aug. 28, 2023
“These elements, which we call prosody, carry meaning that we can’t communicate with words alone,” Bellier says.
From Scientific American • Aug. 15, 2023
He rejects Chomsky’s theory of a “language organ” in the brain and instead takes up Darwin’s emphasis on prosody — the notion that the melody and rhythms of speech are what move us toward language.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
A single stressed syllable, then a trochee, then a dactyl, for prosody nerds.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
