Prosody concerns the “melody” of an utterance. As such, prosodic aspects of a sentence are rhythm, intonation, and stress/emphasis. Acoustical expressions of prosody are duration (of syllables/phonemes), loudness, pitch and even formant structure (which might be different in stressed vowels than in unstressed vowels).
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(2009). Prosody. In: Li, S.Z., Jain, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Biometrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73003-5_608
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