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1. Also known as prosody or suprasegmentals.

2. MELODY OF THE SPEECH.

3. IT STUDIES

   • How does the pitch of the voice rises and falls?
   • How do speakers use the pitch variation to convey linguistic and pragmatic meaning?
   • The rhythm of speech.
   • How does the interplay of accented, stressed and unstressed syllables functions as a framework onto which the intonation patterns are attached.

4. PROSODIC FEATURES

   • The rhythm of the speech
     • Pitch, loudness and speed combined with silence (pause).
   • Stress
     • Combination of loudness, pitch and duration.
     • Some languages use stress placement lexically (the difference of meaning depends entirely upon the location of the stress) as Greek; but other languages do not as French.
     • English is an stress language.
       • Stress is an important part of the spoken identify of an English word.