Speech Prosody and Speech Melodies

This chapter deals with the use of traditional western musical notation to transcribe and analyze Speech Prosody. Prosody is everything that extends beyond vocalic and consonantal segments. The term can be used in the singular or plural. Some of the prosodies are intonation, speech contours, word stress, sentence stress, speech rhythm, voice quality, duration, the tempo of speech, (re)syllabification, and all phonological processes. From the perspective of this book, the equivalent of Speech Prosody in music is Speech Melody or Speech Melodies. As these terms say, Speech Prosodies and Speech Melodies deal with speech phenomena. However, Speech Prosodies are mainly associated to speech and hearing in any situation outside music, whereas Speech Melodies are associated with speech and hearing in music.