Glossary

Prosody: acoustic properties of speech including intonation,tone, rhythm and lexical stress
Intonation: intonation is the variation of pitch when speaking
Pitch: the perceived fundamental frequency of a sound
Accent: the way a group of people pronounces the sounds of a language
Rhythm: variation of the accentuation of sounds over time
Tone: use of pitch in language to distinguish words
Syllable: consists of a nucleus (vowel), which is the central part of the syllable, and margins (consonants)
Stress: emphasis that may be given to syllables in a word