Conhecendo methor a prosódia: aspectos teóricos e metodológicos daquio que molda nossa enunciação.

This work aims at presenting some theoretical and methodological aspects of prosody research to newcomers. The work gives the Platonic origin of the word "prosody" from which the contemporary meanings developed, to include notions such as prominence, prosodic boundary, phrase stress, stress group, focus, emphasis, intonation and rhythm. Selected methodological aspects are shown, such as the construction of corpus, the relationship between lab and spontaneous speech, syllabic duration normalization, and the difference between the notions attached to prosody production and perception. From these aspects some crucial issues in speech prosody are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]