Workshop on acoustics & prosody

This workshop is a concentrated, hands-on introduction to acoustics, which is the study of the physical aspects of sounds. A special focus will be on prosody, i.e. the melody and rhythm of speech. Prosody is an important component of language, performing such crucial functions as distinguishing questions from statements, highlighting new or important information and dividing speech into units for interpretation. Prosody also differs widely between languages – it is a main reason why Kalaallisut, English and Mandarin sound so different from each other - but also between dialects of the same language.

Read more at https://uk.uni.gl/events/2025/november/workshop-on-acoustics-prosody/

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