Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- As regards prosody.
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- adverb In a
prosodic manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their perceptual preference for the surrounding language and their ability to distinguish between prosodically different languages and pitch changes are based on prosodic information, primarily melody.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Newborns’ Cry Melody Is Shaped by Their Native Language” 2009
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His translations appear to me really excellent, very carefully made, and prosodically well suited to the music.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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The absence of the expected - n't has been credited to ellipsis, phonetic assimilation or masking, lack of contrastive function (a semantic neutralization which has failed to delete otiose negatives in hosts of situations and languages), usurpation of the negative function by less as if it were the suffix - less (which seems prosodically unlikely and inexact), and shortening by frequency.
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