I see a 7 year old client who used to be treated for articulation. His articulation skills are now WNL, but he is being treated for fluency, which has also steadily improved.

However, I am also noticing that he has very irregular prosody and breathing in spontaneous speech. He takes these sudden gasping breaths in the middle of sentences, sometimes up to four times in a short sentence. (He used to take these breaths in the middle of individual words, but has improved to only taking breaths between words). During his oral motor exam everything was WNL, except his DDK rate was very slow and regular. He was able to sustain "ah" for 7 seconds. His prosody is marked by a monotonous pitch, slow and regular rate of speech, and lack of emphasis on any specific words.

I would appreciate any suggestions on how to differentially diagnose what is going on with his prosody. And how to target it. I don't see any other indicators of CAS or dysarthria, but I'm not sure what else to work on. Thanks in advance for any help.

I aways found fascinating the musicality of a poem, the metric, accents, syllables lengths, foots. But i don't know that much, only a little since i study music, someone have good books to recomend about that topics?

Hello all, I have a few questions as a beginner. For me XMPP was something very new, I never heard about it until last week and binged watched a lot of youtube videos and I'm pretty much convinced that XMPP is a pretty secure way of communicating.

I have a VPS (cloud server) running and I installed XMPP (Prosody client) on it, and I used the apache webclient for the certificates and finally after a lot of errors and troubleshooting I got my server running (this was the first time for me to use terminal and linux).

After I got my XMPP server running I added 2 users in order to check if it works, and yes I used the conversations client from F-froid and downloaded it on 2 phones and it worked pretty good.

My main question:

How secure is this? It says that it uses the OMEMO encryption, if I invited my friends to make use of my XMPP server; are we more secure than using signal or telegram? And where on my server are the messages being stored? And how can I automatically delete log files from the server?

So, I host my own XMPP server, via Prosody software. However, after setting up Prosody with prosody-filer, any attempt of uploading a file would cause a simple "upload failed" error and no output from journalctl. Anyone know how to fix this?

I installed prosody.im/ and after struggle i logged in and everything works but now i can't send any message to any server but i can get messages from other servers and i can send messages from my server to my server so it's something with my setup (dns/domains?) and i'm so lost and not sure what is wrong with my setup so far so i really appreciate your help

INFO: added dns as prosody said (_xmpp-client._tcp.domain.name)

I have no sub domains on domain level but i do on nginx level (does it make a difference?)

Everything is updated as i just started to host stuff today - my os is Debian 11

And finally i get this error message but i do not know how to fix it, my try was to add dns as i said above

   Failed to determine the external addresses of this server. Checks may be inaccurate.
Checking DNS for component muc.domain.name...
    No _xmpp-server SRV record found for muc.domain.name, but it looks like you need one.
    Host muc.domain.name does not seem to resolve to this server (IPv4/IPv6)
    No targets for muc.domain.name appear to resolve to this server.
    DNS records are necessary if you want users on other servers to access this component.

Checking DNS for host localhost...
    No _xmpp-client SRV record found for localhost, but it looks like you need one.
    No _xmpp-server SRV record found for localhost, but it looks like you need one.
    Target 'localhost' cannot be accessed from other servers
    No targets for localhost appear to resolve to this server.

Checking DNS for host domain.name...
    No _xmpp-client SRV record found for domain.name, but it looks like you need one.
    No _xmpp-server SRV record found for domain.name, but it looks like you need one.
    Host domain.name does not seem to resolve to this server (IPv4/IPv6)
    No targets for domain.name appear to resolve to this server.


For more information about DNS configuration please see https://prosody.im/doc/dns

Checking certificates...
Checking certificate for muc.domain.name
  Certificate: /etc/prosody/certs/domain.name.crt
    Not valid for server-to-server connections to muc.domain.name.
Checking certificate for localhost
  Certificate: /etc/prosody/certs/localhost.crt
    Not valid for client connections to localhost.
    Not valid for server-to-server connections to localhost.
Checking certificate for domain.name
  Certificate: /etc/prosody/certs/domain.name.crt

For more information about certificates please see https://pros

Hi everyone,

I have been hearing the prosody that the youtuber in the video uses. I have a couple of colleagues in the East Coast who have the same cadence: it steps away from boldness and suggests that every statement is hypothetical, many phrases are divided by pauses and the syntax tree seems a little reconfigured. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXj5-GJSna4

Here, for example, https://youtu.be/VXj5-GJSna4?t=66 , the words lighting, creature, and king sport a rising pitch that sounds like the speaker is asking themselves if it real or not.

Is it known in literature? Where did it originate? Where is it prestigious?

Thank you in advance!

(For my first post on Akiatu prosody, see Footing and stress. But you don't need to read that one to understand this one.)

I guess this is a sneak preview of the post I'm working on about intonation in my language Akiatu. Its about some interactions I think I've just discovered between prosody and the syntax of two of Akiatu's auxiliary verbs, ijau 'sit' and iwari 'hang, float.' And because I absolutely love prosody/syntax interactions, this makes me unreasonably happy.

ijau 'sit' and iwari 'hang, float' can both be used to express progressive aspect, a fairly common way for posture verbs to get grammaticalised. You'd usually use ijau, but iwari is available when a suspended posture seems relevant, like if something is floating in water, hovering in air, or hanging from something.

(Akiatu has two other posture verbs that can be used as auxiliaries: wicu 'lie down' can express habitual aspect and aki 'stand' can take on a range of modal senses. But this post is specifically about ijau and iwari.)

The sentence that led to this post actually used iwari, because it described two frogs suspended in water:

aɲai  kiwa   iwari  jaima  wawa  iruwa
rain  under  PROG   swim   frog  two  
"Two frogs are swimming in the rain"

This was an attempt to come up with a sentence packed with sonorant segments, the sort of sentence that you want when you're studying intonation, and I suppose it's fairly successful. (Though those sentences always seem to be packed with nasals in particular, so maybe I'm missing something.)

However, when I started thinking about how the sentence would work, prosodically speaking, I noticed a problem, which I'll try to explain. (I plan to go into excruciating detail about this stuff in a later post, but will try not to go too far into the weeds here.)

To see the problem, we need to parse the sentence into prosodic phrases. To do that, first we analyse it into syntactic phrases. A simple analysis like this one will suffice:

[aɲai  kiwa ]  [iwari  [jaima  [wawa  iruwa]]]  
 rain  under    PROG    swim    frog  two       

Briefly: wawa iruwa 'two frogs' is a noun phrase, and it's part of the verb phrase headed by jaima 'swim,' which in turn is part of the phrase headed by iwari 'float,' the progressive auxiliary; iɲai kiwa 'in the rain' is a separate phrase, which you could think of as a postpos

some people are nice to listen to, and they persuade you with the way they speak

other people are actually not ever being nice to listen to and are always undermining their own persuasiveness when they speak

i want to know all about prosody..how can a voice be persuasive or sexy or mysterious or..whatever else???

i cant understand how inflection can have emotion impact, psychological impact..that makes no sense to my mind and it is confusing to me..

i know a person. she speaks with the best inflection i know, always very powerful, makes her sound 'reasonable' at all times, and i would love to emulate her style of prosody and her style of intonation and i try to emulate it whenever i can...

i think we all know when a prosody is sexy or mysterious or persuasive OR annoying OR distracting..the question is how stress and intonation and prosody can mean anything to people..

final question..and i apologize for all of these questions..are there people who cannot perceive prosody in any psychological or emotional way..like they are 'immune' to anything to do with the normal psychology or emotion of prosody?

maybe bill clinton had good prosody..maybe all charismatic people have certain ways that they do prosody?

ENV: Debian/Buster, Prosody: 0.11.8

Problem: I've installed & enabled prosody to start at boot via systemctl; however, the prosody service doesn't start at boot. However, I can manually start the service with no problem

Troubleshooting done:

>Check service enabled status: systemctl is-enabled prosody: Returns "enabled"
>
>Reboot: systemctl status prosody: Active: inactive (dead)
>
>Manual start: systemctl start prosody
>
>Check status: systemctl status prosody: Active: active (running)

What gives?

Thanks!

Fuck, this actually a pretty good idea. 10% pls if anybody makes it

Hi all,

If I understand correctly, one difference between XMPP and Matrix is that Matrix is transported over HTTP, whereas XMPP is usually transported over TCP. It can also be transported over HTTP, with BOSH.

At first I wasn't planning on setting up BOSH. However, if I understand correctly, even when using TCP, Prosody requires a certificate to support encrypted connections.

I currently automate my Let's Encrypt certificates with a tool called cert-manager for Kubernetes. It's a lot easier than doing stuff manually, e.g. it renews certificates automatically for me. Thus I want to use it for Prosody. But due to limitations with Kubernetes, this isn't easy to do with a non-HTTP service. So I'm going to set up BOSH, let cert-manager create a TLS certificate for the HTTPS connections, but then also use that same certificate with Prosody.

Is using the same certificate for HTTPS connections (BOSH) and encrypted TLS connections a valid strategy? Or must they be different certificates?

I am also confused how the identity of my server will remain recognized, even when the TLS certificate expires and is automatically renewed. In contrast, Matrix has a matrix_key.pem, a private key that is strictly tied to the domain and doesn't change, even between different installations. Does XMPP have something analogous to this, or does it work differently?

Thanks for reading! Please feel free to point out anything I'm misunderstanding.

How would you describe the rhythm of, for example, Gorey's "Gashlycrumb Tinies":

A is for Amy who fell down the stairs

B is for Basil assaulted by bears

These scan as follows:

A is for / Amy who / fell down the / stairs

I've seen it described as dactylic trimeter followed by an additional stressed syllable, but that seems pretty awkward. Is there a better way to describe that final shortened foot?

This is also an issue in trochaic rhythms. For example, how would you describe Auden's "In Memory of W.B. Yeats":

Earth, receive an honoured guest;

William Yeats is laid to rest;

Seems silly to describe it as trochaic trimeter followed by an extra stressed syllable. It's clearly tetrameter with a shortened final foot. But don't we have a more elegant term for this and for the Gorey example?

This is an attempt to sort out how stress works in my language Akiatu. It's pretty pedantic, though there are a few points at least where I think the pedantry leads to some pretty interesting places.

If this sort of thing interests you, you might prefer the pdf version.

I won't be talking at all about the phonetic correlates of stress, but in case you're interested, the main thing is volume. There's also some vowel centralisation in unstressed syllables. Importantly, stressed vowels do not lengthen.

Eventually this should get a sequel, about clause- and utterance-level intonation.

The basics

Akiatu words can be analysed into feet. I'll use parentheses to show this:

• (wa.ka) 'puddle'
• (i.ma)(ka.ni) 'to stir'

(Within feet I'll use periods to separate syllables.)

Each foot has two moras. A short vowel counts as one mora, a diphthong or long vowel counts as two moras, and consonants (which occur only in onset) never count. So a foot consists either of two light syllables or of one heavy syllable. Like this:

• (ja.kwa)(nai) 'ancestor'

In each foot, the first syllable gets stressed. (Of course, if the foot has only one syllable, that's the syllable that gets stressed.) Primary stress goes to the last foot in the word. I'll represent stress using the standard IPA symbols:

• (ˈwa.ka) 'puddle'
• (ˌi.ma)(ˈka.ni) 'to stir'
• (ˌja.kwa)(ˈnai) 'ancestor'

(Aside: these feet can be called moraic trochees. By contrast, feet that always consist of two syllables, regardless of weight, and stress the first syllable are called syllabic trochees. And bisyllabic feet that stress the second syllable are iambs.---As far as I know there's no such thing as a moraic iamb, but I have no idea why.)

In Akiatu, syllables get parsed into feet starting at the end of the word. As a result, the first syllable might not get assigned to a foot:

• wa(ˈmi.ka) 'wind'
• i(ˌkwa.ka)(ˈtai) 'the sun'

Syllables that don't get assigned to feet are sometimes called unfooted.

If a word's second-last syllable is heavy, it will get its own foot, leaving the word's final syllable unfooted:

• (ˈjai)mu 'to swim'
• i(ˈwai)ku 'to scream'

As you can see, a word can have both its first and last syllables unfooted.

Impossible words

Now consider this: *caitasiwi. The asterisk indicates that there's something wrong with it: not only is it not an actual Akiatu

So I had prosody up and running before. My buddy and I built it on nix. Then we had to rebuild because of "reasons" and neither of us can remember how we got the http_upload or I guess what is now called "http_files" to work, so we can't send pictures or anything over the server. It was working before.

Here's the prosody section of the configuration.nix file:

services = {
    openssh.enable = true;
    prosody = {
      enable = true;
      admins = [ "mike@mydomain.net" ];
      extraModules = [ "http_files" ];
      virtualHosts."chat" = {
        enabled = true;
        domain = "mydomain.net";
        ssl = {
          key = "/etc/nixos/prosody/mydomain.net.key";
          cert = "/etc/nixos/prosody/mydomain.net.crt";
        };
        extraConfig = ''
          https_ssl = {
            protocol = "tlsv1_2";
          }
        '';
      };
    };
  };

I initially tried replacing the "http_files" with "http_upload" but it didn't work, which made me try files. We pieced the above together from a sample of the configuration we had working on the old server. Of course, we took the sample BEFORE we got the http_upload to work >.<

If anyone has any suggestions it would be great. Thanks in advance.