Prosodic style

An important consequence of the degree of choice in prosody is that it allows the speaker to deviate from the default patterns in certain ways without running the risk of changing the meaning of the sentence entirely. This then allows for the phenomenon termed prosodic style. This is most marked in situations where particular speakers, often actors or comedians, use prosodic style in a quite unconventional way. This use of prosody is not related to the communication of the message or even emotion, but is intended to draw attention to the speaker himself Informally, we can talk about the speaker sounding cool by the way they can deviate from the normal patterns... 

ZovATO, E., Sandri, S., Quazza, S., and Badino, L. Prosodic analysis of a multi-style corpus in the perspective of emotional speech synthesis. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2004 (2004). 

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