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has gloss | eng: Dysprosody is the rarest neurological speech disorder known. Prosody refers to the variations in melody, intonation, pauses, stresses, intensity, vocal quality and accents of speech. As a result, prosody has a wide array of functions including expression on linguistic, attitudinal, pragmatic, affective and personal levels of speech. Dysprosody, which is also known as psuedo-foreign dialect syndrome, refers to a disorder in which one or more of these prosodic functions are either compromised or eliminated completely. People diagnosed with dysprosody most commonly experience difficulties in pitch or timing control. |
lexicalization | eng: dysprosody |
instance of | (noun) a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time" disorder, upset |
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