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speech rhythm vs prosody

prosody vs speech rhythm

speech rhythm and prosody both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
speech rhythm Yes No No No
prosody Yes No No No
As nouns, prosody is a hypernym of speech rhythm; that is, prosody is a word with a broader meaning than speech rhythm:
  • speech rhythm: the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements
  • prosody: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
Other hypernyms of speech rhythm include guide, template, templet, inflection.
speech rhythm (noun) prosody (noun)
the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements the study of poetic meter and the art of versification
the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
(prosody) a system of versification
Difference between speech rhythm and prosody

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