Dysprosody Introduction Prosody refers to the variations in melody, intonation, pauses, stresses, intensity, vocal quality and accents of speech. In effect, prosody has a wide array of functions including expression on linguistic, attitudinal, pragmatic, affective and personal levels. Dysprosody, also known as psuedo-foreign dialect syndrome, refers to a disorder in which one or more of these prosody functions are compromised or wholly eliminated. People diagnosed with dysprosody most commonly… (More on Dysprosody)