THE PROSODY OF SPEECH: MELODY AND RHYTHM

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Phonetics and Phonology Research Voice and Speech Disorders Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition

Abstract

The word ‘prosody ’ comes from ancient Greek, where it was used for a “song sung with instrumental music”. In later times the word was used for the “science of versification ” and the “laws of metre”, governing the modulation of the human voice in reading poetry aloud. In modern phonetics the word ‘prosody ’ and its adjectival

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