Noun
That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is. Theodore Sturgeon
The practice of reading aloud did do something towards attuning my ear. The subtle cadences of Elizabethan blank verse taught me more than the substantial study of English prosody could do at that time. Vernon Scannell
Although Pound would become the first American to write a favorable review of Frost's work, Frost later resented Pound's attempts to manipulate his American prosody. Source: Internet
A person with receptive aphasia speaks with normal prosody and intonation but uses random words, invents words, leaves out key words, substitutes words or verb tenses, pronouns, or prepositions, and utters sentences that do not make sense. Source: Internet
For simplicity of input and display every syllable is symbolized as "a" here: ¹ "Proto-Mongolian has lost all traces of the original prosody except for voicing *p > *b in syllables with original high pitch" (Starostin et al. 2003:135). Source: Internet
In certain systems, this part includes the computation of the target prosody (pitch contour, phoneme durations), citation which is then imposed on the output speech. Source: Internet