Prosody

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Prosody may refer to:

• Prosody (Latin), the study of Latin versification and its laws of meter
• Prosody (linguistics), the characteristics of speech style

• Semantic prosody, a reader/hearer expects a word to be associated with following words of positive or negative meaning (based on collocation)

• Prosody (music), the manner of setting words to music
• Prosody (software), a cross-platform XMPP server written in Lua
• Metre (poetry), the study of poetic meter