Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p> The term <jats:italic>prosody</jats:italic> has varying definitions across language‐related disciplines. In conversation analysis (CA) and its linguistic counterpart, interactional linguistics (Selting & Couper‐Kuhlen, 2001), it refers to the “musical” aspects of speech, that is, pitch (intonation and pitch register), loudness, and time (syllable duration, speech rate, rhythm, and pauses); in addition, some writers include voice quality. Another term for prosody that is frequently used in linguistics is <jats:italic>suprasegmentals</jats:italic> . This term is based on the common linguistic distinction between articulation, which refers to the production of individual sounds or <jats:italic>segments</jats:italic> , and those areas of speech production that are above the level of individual sounds, that is, suprasegmental. </jats:p>