Dysprosody's a type of speech disorder that occurs following a lesion of the nondominant hemisphere of the brain. In dysprosody, the patient has difficulty in the expression or comprehension of the emotional components of speech, such as melody, emphasis, inflection, and gesturing. Expressive dysprosody Expressive dysprosody's characterized by an inability to express inflection or emotion in speech. It results from a lesion of the area corresponding to Broca's area but on the nondominant hemisph… (More on Dysprosody)