prosodicsn.
/prə(ʊ)ˈsɒdɪks/, /prə(ʊ)ˈzɒdɪks/, U.S. /prəˈsɑdɪks/, /proʊˈsɑdɪks/, /prəˈzɑdɪks/, /proʊˈzɑdɪks/ Linguistics.
The suprasegmental phonological features of a language, such as intonation, rhythm, pitch, and stress, considered collectively; = prosody n. 3.
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1949 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 15 139/2 The prosodics of the utterance are analyzable in terms of three factors peculiar to the syllable.
1951 Language 27 335 We can equate Trubetzkoyan and American terms of the early forties about as follows: Trubetzkoyan..prosodics... American..suprasegmental or supralinear phonemics.
1955 R. Quirk in Language 31 307 Definitive introduction to some aspects of English prosodics, with both more material and a firmer, more scientific handling of it.
1980 Eng. World-Wide 1 213 The last three lexemes, mi faadaz kyaar carry JamC [= Jamaican Creole] prosodics.
1991 ICAME Jrnl. 15 95 The same lexical item may serve different functions depending on its prosodics and its position in the utterance (initial, medial, final).
1996 Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 19 Dec. 3 The computer program graphs the ‘prosodics’, or the intonations and stress patterns, of a voice.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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