Prosody

Prosody may mean several things:

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• Prosody consists of distinctive variations of stress, tone, and timing in spoken language. How pitch changes from word to word, the speed of speech, the loudness of speech, and the duration of pauses all contribute to prosody.
• In linguistics, prosody includes intonation and vocal stress in speech. See prosody (linguistics).
• In poetry, prosody includes the scansion and metrical shape of the lines: see meter (poetry).