This is Lecture 28 of our series in prosody. Much of what we've presented in this series may contradict what most people think. Many of those beliefs are myths, hallowed by repetition over the decades and centuries. So here we review the concerns and biases of earlier scholars, and consider connections with music notation, renaissance social climbing, punctuation and alphabets, and the golden age of broadcast.
00:00 The Persistence of Prosody Myths
00:52 Poetry and Music
01:42 The Noble Speakers, Social Climbing, and Prescriptive Rules
02:14 Why People Believe that Questions have a Final Pitch Rise
03:49 Broadcast Speech as an Outlier Artform
04:40 Summary: Archaic Perspectives Still Linger
