Talk:English prosody
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[edit]Justification for creating this article:
Wikipedia already has an article on Prosody, but a separate overview article on English Prosody is needed. That article is primarily from the perspective of linguistic theory, and probably best serves college students in an Introduction to Linguistics course. This article is primarily descriptive, and intended to serve those learning English or those setting out to teach learners of English. As such, it presents the main ways in which prosody is used in the English language, and notes how these differ from its uses in other languages. (Ultimately there should be articles on the prosody of Spanish, of Mandarin, of Japanese, and so on.) Of course there is some overlap in coverage, given that the Prosody article uses examples from English, however those examples are chosen to illustrate the linguistic insights, but the examples here are intended to illustrate how English prosody works. Of course there is some overlap between these two aims, but there is no harm in having extra examples available.
There are also good specific articles on English Intonation, English Stress, High Rising Terminals, and Pitch Accents, etc., all of which are sub-topics or sub-subtopics of English Prosody, so it's good to add an overview article of all of English Prosody. SpPros (talk) 03:17, 8 October 2024 (UTC)