Prosody is the study of poetic meter and versification or the stress and intonation patterns of speech.
Prosodia es el estudio de la métrica y la versificación poética o los patrones de acentuación y entonación del habla.
| Front | prosody \PROS-uh-dee\ |
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| Back | noun 1. The science or study of poetic meters and versification. 2. A particular or distinctive system of metrics and versification: Milton's prosody. 3. Linguistics. The stress and intonation patterns of an utterance. |
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