prosody

Other parameters come into play, such as prosody, which includes pauses, accentuation and intonation.

Scientists call this "exaggerated prosody."

This juxtaposition is far from coincidental, as the researchers' experiments revealed that dog brains respond in the same positive ways to exaggerated prosody as our very own infants.

“These elements, which we call prosody, carry meaning that we can’t communicate with words alone,” Bellier says.

If a brain-computer interface could re-create someone’s speech with the inherent prosody and emotional weight found in music, it could reconstruct far more than just words.