#inflection__prosody the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
supertype: #manner_of_speaking__speech__delivery your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
subtype: #intonation__pitch_contour rise and fall of the voice pitch
subtype: #intonation_pattern intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
subtype: #monotone__drone__droning an unchanging intonation
subtype: #singsong.intonation a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
subtype: #caesura a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
subtype: #enjambment__enjambement the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
subtype: #accentuation__stress__emphasis__accent the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
subtype: #tonic_accent__tonicaccent__pitch_accent__pitchaccent emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
subtype: #word_stress__word_accent the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
subtype: #sentence_stress__sentencestres the distribution of stresses within a sentence
subtype: #speech_rhythm__rhythm the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"
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