By “prosodic contour” we mean the over-all “melody” with which the linguistic expression is produced.
- Dik (1989), a pag.380

The prosodic contour constists of a series of Rises and Falls in pitch, embroidered on a “pitch range” defined by a lower-level “baseline” and an upper-level “top line”.
- Dik (1989), a pag.384

We shall say that a linguistic expression gets or is assigned a “prosodic contour”, which is composed of three main features: “tone”, “accent”, and “intonation”.
- Dik (1989), a pag.379