Example sentences for: prosodic

How can you use “prosodic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Good day has taken on other connotations, depending on its prosodic features (stress pattern).

  • They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.

  • But although the sequence achieves near perfection in prosodic matching, the grammar is hardly Fry's: turning is more plausibly active than passive, with for in its familiar support-oriented role, in favor of.


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