Prosody augmentative

The second aspect of prosody is called augmentative prosody. The basic purpose of this is to augment the verbal component. Taking a simple example first, we see that many sentences are highly confusable with respect to syntactic structure. In sentences such as 

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Augmentative prosody is used to disambiguate and reinforce the verbal component. 

While it may be fairly obvious that increased articulation effort will lead to a higher probability of a phoneme string being correctly recognised, it is with other aspects of augmentative prosody that the situation becomes particularly interesting. For example, it is frequently asserted that yes/no questions such as... 

In sununary, augmentative prosody works by changing the default suprasegmental content of an utterance in particular ways. It is used by the speaker solely to increase the chances of the verbal message being correctly decoded and understood. Significantly, unlike affective prosody, it imparts no extra information into the message. 

This requires considerable skill and is often based on an understanding of the text, rather than just a decoding as is the case for words. The reader is in effect adding in affective and augmentative prosody in places she believes are appropriate. 

Here the word function means purpose and is a combination of affective and augmentative prosody. 

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