Associations to the word «Prosody»

Wiktionary

PROSODY, noun. (linguistics) The study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech.
PROSODY, noun. (poetry) The study of poetic meter; the patterns of sounds and rhythms in verse.

Dictionary definition

PROSODY, noun. The patterns of stress and intonation in a language.
PROSODY, noun. (prosody) a system of versification.
PROSODY, noun. The study of poetic meter and the art of versification.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky