prosodic
Adjective
Meaning
of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
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As of the most recent change in 2005, citation there are 107 letters, 52 diacritics, and four prosodic marks in the IPA.
Tone and intonation Both lexical or grammatical tone and prosodic intonation are cued by changes in pitch, as well sometimes by changes in phonation.
Diacritics and prosodic notation main Diacritics are used for phonetic detail.
Rather than acting on segments, phonological processes act on distinctive features within prosodic groups.
The Danish prosodic feature stød is an example of a form of laryngealisation that has a phonemic function.
The only exception to this is that a sound change may or may not recognise word boundaries, even when they are not indicated by prosodic clues.