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Prosody is one of the most undervalued components of language, despite fulfilling manifold purposes: it can, for instance, help assign the correct meaning to compounds such as ‘white house’ (linguistic function), or help a listener understand how a speaker feels (emotional function). However, brain based models that take into account the role prosody plays in dynamic speech comprehension are still rare. This is probably due to the fact that it has proven difficult to fully denote the neurocognitive architecture underlying prosody. This review discusses clinical and neuroscientific evidence regarding both linguistic and emotional prosody. It will become obvious that prosody processing is a multi-stage operation and that its temporally and functionally distinct processing steps are anchored in a functionally differentiated brain network. THIS VERSION MAY NOT BE IDENTICAL TO THE PUBLISHED VERSION