Speech Prosody: The Musical, Magical Quality of Speech

When we speak, can vary how use our voices. Our speech be high or low (pitch), loud soft (loudness), and fast slow (duration). This variation in pitch, loudness, duration is called prosody. It a bit like making music. Varying voices when speak express sarcasm emotion even change the meaning of what are saying. So, prosody crucial part spoken language. But do speakers produce prosody? How listeners hear understand these variations? Is it possible to interpret other languages? And about people whose hearing not so good? Can they prosodic patterns at all? Let’s find out!