(n.) A metrical break in a verse, occurring in the middle of a foot and commonly near the middle of the verse; a sense pause in the middle of a foot. Also, a long syllable on which the caesural accent rests, or which is used as a foot.
Example Sentences:
(1) The remaining 22% of patients wanted to mark a "caesura" in their lives.
(2) Bell had found himself, at the end of the 1950s, at a "disconcerting caesura".
Prosody
Definition:
(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the quantity of syllables, of accent, and of the laws of versification or metrical composition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that use of vibrotactile stimulation enhanced D's production and resulted in listeners' perceptions of correct prosody.
(2) Assessment of all components of dysarthria, including resonance, articulation, phonation, respiration, and prosody, is stressed along with motivational and medical considerations.
(3) It was hypothesized that the acoustically anomalous features are linked to a common underlying deficit relating to speech prosody.
(4) Subjects were then asked to read out a list of sentences either stressing a nominated word (stress prosody expression) or conveying a nominated emotion (emotional prosody expression), and their efforts were rated by a panel of normal raters.
(5) This research examined the influence of mood-congruent and mood-incongruent contexts on recognizing affective prosody after brain damage.
(6) The results are discussed in regard to recent hypotheses for a privileged role of the right hemisphere in the organization of speech prosody.
(7) The present investigation was designed to determine the influence of stressed word prosody on auditory comprehension by listeners with aphasia.
(8) The present article provides a linguistic analysis of Monrad-Krohn's famous description of a patient with deviant prosody (1947).
(9) The striking disorder of prosody in Parkinson's disease relates to motor control, not to a loss of the linguistic knowledge required to make prosodic distinctions.
(10) Evidence linking neurophysiologic mechanisms with components of prosody is presented.
(11) Comparison of similar right and left, cortical (frontoparietal), and subcortical (capsule and basal ganglia) lesions suggested, but did not prove, that the RH pure prosody impairment is cortical whereas the RH tonal-semantic mismatch categorization impairment involves subcortical as well as cortical contributions.
(12) It appears that prosody, language and the motor planning of speech are integrated at a basal ganglia level.
(13) The present study examines laterality for affective and linguistic prosody using the dichotic listening paradigm.
(14) Young and elderly adults heard recorded passages of English prose spoken with and without normal prosody, and passages that were devoid of either linguistic or prosodic structure.
(15) Significant intergroup differences were found in the prosody production tasks but, in contrast to previous results, not in the receptive tasks on the recognition and appreciation of prosody and of facial expression.
(16) They may show a lack of spontaneous prosody or gesturing.
(17) It has been suggested that the non-dominant hemisphere is specialized for receptive and expressive music and prosody.
(18) In addition, expression of automatic speech such as singing, emotion, and possibly prosody can also influence mouth asymmetry, but in the opposite direction, suggesting a relatively greater right-hemisphere role for these types of expression.
(19) Hernández re-creates not only their rustic speech, but also the natural prosody peculiar to the peasant.
(20) HD patients were impaired in comprehension of both types of prosody compared to controls but were not different from stroke patients.