Function lateralization such as semantics, prosodic, intonation, accentuation, prosody, etc. Verbal roots may take a formative syllable or not depending on syntactic and prosodic factors. Rather than acting on segments, phonological processes act on distinctive features within prosodic groups. Impairments of processing of phonemic structure and prosodic predictability have also been observed. The actual realization of liaison, however, is subject to interacting syntactic, prosodic, and stylistic constraints. This explains how children discover syllable and word boundaries through prosodic cues. FAS mainly affects speech at a segmental or prosodic level. One characteristic shared by many clitics is a lack of prosodic independence. For stress as a prosodic feature (emphasis of particular words within utterances), see below. Alliteration fits naturally with the prosodic patterns of early Germanic languages. Neurological processes integrating verbal and vocal (prosodic) components are relatively unclear. The stress placed on words within sentences is called sentence stress or prosodic stress. There are also a number of diacritics representing prosodic features. The hyphens and lack of projection lines indicate prosodic dependencies. Each individual has a distinct voice characterized by all the prosodic elements.