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Adjective: prosodic  pru'só-dik
  1. Of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing
    "Two types of potential prosodic cues that may contribute importantly to the segmentation of words from speech are perceptually salient syllables and rhythm"

See also: prosody

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