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
Along with prosody, language acquisition depends on the simplified sentences and exaggerated emphases of caregivers’ vocalizations and reinforcements.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021
Her academic pedigree shows when she discusses Jefferson’s fascination with cadence, “which lilts along on iambic feet”; she invokes his little-known study of English prosody and “the importance of pauses to poetic language.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2020
One is to provide the reader with hints about prosody, thus bringing writing a bit closer to speech.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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Lessons 4–5
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