Prosody
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Prosody may refer to:
- Prosody (linguistics)Prosody (linguistics)In linguistics, prosody is the rhythm, stress, and intonation of speech. Prosody may reflect various features of the speaker or the utterance: the emotional state of the speaker; the form of the utterance ; the presence of irony or sarcasm; emphasis, contrast, and focus; or other elements of...
, the study of rhythm, intonation, stress, and related attributes in speech - Prosody (music)Prosody (music)In music, Prosody is the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung. For example, a songwriter might align downbeats or accents with stressed syllables or important words....
, the way the composer sets the text of a vocal composition in the assignment of syllables to notes in the melody to which the text is sung - Prosody (poetry), the study of poetic meter
- Prosody (software)Prosody (software)Prosody is a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua. Its development goals include low resource usage, ease-of-use, and extensibility.- History :...
, a Jabber/XMPP server