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Definition of Prosodic system
1. Noun. The system of accentuation used in a particular language.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prosodic System
Literary usage of Prosodic system
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"poets as to their prosodic system—as if it were a "hedge," a kind of afterthought
on discovering inconveniences. I can assure him that it was nothing of the ..."
2. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"The bearings" of any prosodic system that is rationally inductive must "lie in
the application of it." And this system, thus applied, seems to me at once to ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"But on this point, as well as on the extraordinary change that was coming over
the Latin prosodic system in Prudentius' time, the substitution of accent for ..."
4. An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry: Being Prolegomena by Mark Harvey Liddell (1902)
"As unit groups in our prosodic system we have "waves of impulse" instead of feet.
We can use the English numerals instead of the Greek prefixes, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Scientific Study of English Poetry: Being Prolegomena by Mark Harvey Liddell (1902)
"As unit groups in our prosodic system we have "waves of impulse" instead of feet.
We can use the English numerals instead of the Greek prefixes, ..."
6. Concerning French Verse: An Essay for English-speaking Readers of French by Charles Cameron Clarke (1922)
"That time was drawing to a close in the sixteenth century just when the present
prosodic system was being formulated. About 1580 practically every final ..."
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