One of the most oft-studied aspects of the Kagoshima dialect is its prosodic system.
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The prosodic system of Koshikijima, like that of mainland Kagoshima, is characterized as a two-pattern pitch accent.
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"" Makhno poetic melos is shaped by a number of prosodic systems vers libre, metric versification, stanzaic arrangement thus rendering it richly polyphonic.
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In another of his projects, Leo Wetzels and S�rgio Meira ( Leiden University ) present a comprehensive survey and theoretical discussion of the word-prosodic systems of the indigenous languages of South America.
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David Crystal for example says that " intonation is not a single system of contours and levels, but the product of the interaction of features from different prosodic systems " tone ", " pitch-range ", " loudness ", " rhythmicality " and " tempo " in particular ."