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prosodic, a.|prɒˈsɒdɪk|
[f. L. prosōdia prosody + -ic. Cf. F. prosodique. (The reputed Gr. προσῳδικός, is, according to Liddell and Scott, an erroneous spelling of προσοδιακός.)]
1. Of, pertaining or relating to prosody.
1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry (1840) I. Diss. ii. p. cvi, The strict..attention of these Latin poets to prosodic rules. 1886J. Eggeling in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 270/2 The normal instrumental ending â, preserved for prosodic reasons. 1906Saintsbury Eng. Prosody I. Pref. 6 To make the book a history of prosodic study as well as of prosodic expression.
2. Linguistics. Of or pertaining to suprasegmental features of pitch, juncture, stress, etc. Also, of or pertaining to prosodies (prosody 3); esp. prosodic analysis, the type of linguistic analysis associated with J. R. Firth and his followers, which employs as fundamental concepts the phonematic unit (see phonematic a. b) and the prosody.
1940Language XVI. 31 There are a number of vowel phonemes, each of which may be accompanied by either short quantity or long quantity, these being prosodic phonemes. 1942Bloch & Trager Outl. Linguistic Anal. 41 We now turn our attention to those modifications of the segmental bounds to which we have given the names of quantity, accent and juncture... The methods of analysis are in principle the same for these prosodic features as for segmental phonemes... The product of the analysis will be an inventory of what may be called the prosodic or suprasegmental phonemes. 1949J. R. Firth in Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 136 The prosodic diacritica included tone, voice quality, and other properties of the sonants. 1952A. Cohen Phonemes of Eng. 19 Other elements of speech, such as length, stress, or pitch, which according to the terminology of Prague are called prosodic features or ‘suprasegmental phonemes’ in American usage. 1955Bull. School of Oriental & Afr. Stud. XVII. 134 The difference in theoretical basis between the prosodic approach and the phoneme theory is reflected firstly in the setting up of a total system to account for the phonetic material presented here, and secondly in the stating of that system not in relation to the syllable but to the word. 1957Proc. Univ. of Durham Philos. Soc. I. Ser. B (Arts) i. 3 The aim of prosodic analysis in phonology is..a phonological analysis in terms which account take [sic] not only of paradigmatic relations and contrasts, but also of the equally important syntagmatic relations and functions which are operative in speech. 1968J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics iii. 131 By virtue of their occurrence in words of one prosodic class rather than another, they are realized phonetically in different ways. 1971Archivum Linguisticum II. 68 The mainspring of prosodic analysis in phonology was the recognition of phonetic features whose domains extended beyond those of the (more practical) phoneme. 1974R. Quirk Linguist & Eng. Lang. i. 20 His [sc. Dickens's] characters' speeches are..repeatedly accompanied by instructions as to tempo, stress, pitch, rhythm, and other prosodic features. |