prosodicallyadv.

1790 Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 2 ii. §ii. iii. 76 Pure trochaic or iambic verses, where every alternate syllable is prosodically long, and the others are short, occur but rarely in their works.

1834 E. Robinson Hist. View Slavic Lang. 20 This latter [sc. the grammatical accent] may lie just as well on syllables that are prosodically short, as on those which are long.

1895 Littell's Living Age 16 Nov. 400 Tennyson's Aleaics and Hendecasyllabics and Galliambics—be they..syllabically and prosodically exact or not..cannot be said to produce just the same effect..as the similar metres used by Catullus and Horace.

1910 G. Saintsbury Hist. Man. Eng. Prosody iv. ii. 305 Hunt, J. H. Leigh... Chiefly remarkable prosodically for his revival of the enjambed decasyllabic couplet.

1998 A. Fadiman Ex Libris (2000) 24 This work consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter,..and ends with the prosodically unimpeachable couplet ‘He's learned the cruelest lesson of them all—Celebrity does not prevent a fall.’

1937 M. Swadesh in Amer. Anthropologist 39 731 If utterances which are otherwise of the same or comparable phonemic make-up are different prosodically, a set of prosodic phonemes must be recognized.

1949 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1948 144 The Danish glottal stop is..best considered prosodically as a feature of syllabic structure and word formation.

1964 M. A. K. Halliday et al. Ling. Sci. iii. 69 The vowel phoneme /iⁱ/, is prosodically marked: it is characterized by the movement of the tongue towards a certain position, rather than by its attainment of a fixed position for a fixed segment of time.

1973 Nature 13 Apr. 481/1 The early utterances of the child which consist of only single morphemes are nevertheless ‘sentences’ since they are prosodically marked and because they are productively used.

1993 Appl. Linguistics 14 153 Rhythm can be instantiated in a practice linguistically, paralinguistically (for example, handclapping), prosodically (for example, via pitch and stress), and nonverbally (for example, head nods, body movements, and hand gestures).