prosodic

adjective

of or relating to the rhythmic aspect of language or to the suprasegmental phonemes of pitch and stress and juncture and nasalization and voicing

Roots

prospros- · Greek · to, toward oideod- · Greek · song ikos-ic · Greek · pertaining to

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