(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.
Verse
Definition:
(n.) A line consisting of a certain number of metrical feet (see Foot, n., 9) disposed according to metrical rules.
(n.) Metrical arrangement and language; that which is composed in metrical form; versification; poetry.
(n.) A short division of any composition.
(n.) A stanza; a stave; as, a hymn of four verses.
(n.) One of the short divisions of the chapters in the Old and New Testaments.
(n.) A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
(n.) A piece of poetry.
(v. t.) To tell in verse, or poetry.
(v. i.) To make verses; to versify.
Example Sentences:
(1) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
(2) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
(3) At the same time, he is keen to do everything in his power to help Palace pick up three crucial points, right down to giving Pulis chapter and verse on the Cardiff players he knows inside out.
(4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
(5) No wonder the European Union has banned the use of the term on packaging unless it can be backed up with scientific chapter and verse.
(6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
(7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
(8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
(9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
(12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.
(13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(14) He gives the team and the club a good presence, and you could see that from what he gave to us here.” Leeds are a club well versed in setting records, and they have now not won at Elland Road for 11 matches, stretching back to March.
(15) For those not versed in 800m times, that's remarkably quick considering his age and the conditions.
(16) "His 'official' laureateship verse was published in the Times and even included a poem on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
(17) This last point seemed to draw some sympathy from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who hails from California and is well versed in the central role of the initiative process in the state's political culture.
(18) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
(19) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(20) Two divergent viewpoints, central verses peripheral, provide insight into possible mechanisms.