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Intonation
How pitch rises and falls across a phrase, and how one word can carry a statement, a question, or surprise.
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Plain-language introductions to the parts of prosody — what each one is, why it matters for reading, and how to see it at work in the tools on this site.
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Stress
Why one syllable carries the strongest beat, how print barely marks it, and what two experiments found when stress was marked explicitly.
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Rhythm
How beats distribute across a phrase, the four shapes English keeps returning to, and why rhythm is relative prominence rather than even timing.
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Phrasing
How readers group words into units, why one comma can change a sentence, and how the inner voice marks boundaries that print leaves out.
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Implicit prosody
The silent voice of reading: what it means to say readers project a prosodic structure onto text, and how that idea is studied.
These pages are being written one at a time. Each will end where the reading does — in a tool where you can try the phenomenon on your own text.