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prosody

vr.tr.prosody · XCT.STA

Let an agent explain prosody in both linguistic and poetic senses, relay features, analysis and metrical systems from phonetics and literary sources, describe applications in speech technology and clinical practice, and distinguish prosody from phonemes, grammar and rhyme.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain prosody in both linguistic and poetic senses, relay features, analysis and metrical systems from phonetics and literary sources, describe applications in speech technology and clinical practice, and distinguish prosody from phonemes, grammar and rhyme.

The patterns of rhythm, stress, intonation, tempo and pausing in spoken language, which convey emphasis, emotion, sentence type and structure beyond the words themselves, studied in phonetics and phonology, and in poetics the study of metre and versification, including metrical principles such as quantitative and accentual metre, Arabic prosody with its classical metres, and phenomena such as epic lengthening in Homeric Greek; prosody is also important in speech technology and in clinical assessment of speech.

What it is for: Not applicable; a linguistic and poetic domain.

It can be explain the senses; relay features and metres; describe applications; distinguish related concepts.

Distinguishing features

Suprasegmental

Conveys meaning and emotion

Metrical systems

Language-specific

What it looks like

Not a visible object; patterns of speech sound.

Physical character

prosodic features: pitch, duration, loudness list

Arabic classical metres: 16 count - al-Khalil system

How it is recognised

Rhythm, stress and intonation of speech; metre in verse

Speech rhythm, intonation, metrical principles, Arabic prosody, epic lengthening

Phonemes are segments; rhyme is sound correspondence at line ends; grammar is structure

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

human behavior

is studied in - and phonology

phonetics

includes - in the poetic sense

metre (poetry)

is contrasted with - segmental units

phoneme

In practice

Families and kinds

linguistic prosody including stress, intonation, rhythm and pausing

stress-timed, syllable-timed and mora-timed rhythm

poetic prosody including accentual, syllabic and quantitative metre

Arabic prosody and other classical systems

prosodic phenomena such as epic lengthening

prosody in speech technology and clinical speech

Standards and regulation

ToBI and other prosodic annotation conventions

No regulation

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing linguistic and poetic senses

Applying one language s rhythm to another

Ignoring prosody in speech synthesis

Also called

speech rhythmmetrical principleEpic lengtheningArabic prosody

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.prosody

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What prosody is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition and senses.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is prosody in linguistics and in poetics, and how do the senses relate? definition
  2. Is the question about speech prosody, verse metre or a specific tradition? boundary

Features

Features.

Features

Features.

  1. What are stress, intonation, rhythm, tempo and pausing, and how do they carry meaning? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific feature? action
Analyse Analysis.

Science.

Linguistic

Linguistic analysis.

Linguistic

Linguistic.

  1. How do phoneticians analyse and annotate prosody, including rhythm classes and ToBI? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Metre

Metrical analysis.

Metre

Metre.

  1. How do metrical principles, Arabic prosody and phenomena such as epic lengthening work? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Apply Applications.

Application.

Technology

Speech technology.

Technology

Technology.

  1. How is prosody modelled in speech synthesis and recognition? provenance
  2. Which entry fits speech synthesis? action

Clinical

Clinical and learning.

Clinical

Clinical.

  1. How is prosody assessed in speech disorders and taught in language learning, in general terms? provenance
  2. Which entry fits speech-language pathology? action
Context Traditions and history.

Context.

Traditions

Poetic traditions.

Traditions

Traditions.

  1. How do Greek, Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit and English metrical traditions differ? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific tradition? action

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did the study of prosody develop from ancient grammarians to modern phonetics? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of linguistics? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should intonation and metre be separate primary entries?
  • How should phonetics and literary sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases from linguistics and poetics; should they be split off?