Prosodic Phonology: With a New ForewordProsodic Phonology by Marina Nespor and Irene Vogel is now available again. "Nespor & Vogel 1986" is a citation classic - even after twenty years, it is still recognized as the standard resource on Prosodic Phonology. This groundbreaking work introduces all of the prosodic constituents (syllable, foot, word, clitic group, phonological phrase, intonational phrase and utterance) and provides evidence for each one from numerous languages. Prosodic Phonology also includes a chapter in which experimental psycholinguistic data support the proposed hierarchy. A perceptual study provides evidence that prosodic constituent structure - not syntactic constituent structure - predicts whether listeners are able to disambiguate different types of ambiguous sentences. A chapter on the phonology of poetic meter examines portions of Dante's Divine Comedy. It is demonstrated that the constituents proposed for spoken language also make interesting predictions about literary metrical patterns. Prosodic Phonology is an important reference not only for phonologists, but for all linguists interested in the issue of interfaces among the components of grammar. It is also a basic resource for psycholinguists and cognitive scientists working on linguistic perception and language acquisition. |
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... phonology , in that it is proposed to reflect the relative order of heads and complements and thus also of most subordinate clauses with respect to main clauses ( Green- ― berg 1963 , Hawkins 1983 ) . " Both XX Prosodic Phonology.
... complement languages , and from the left edge of a head to the right edge of its minimal phrase in complement head languages . An optional restructuring includes the first non- branching complement or modifier that follows the head in ...
... complement parameter may be set on the basis of intonation breaks between main and subordinate clauses . She further assumes that once infants hear intonation breaks , they are also able to deduce the relative order of heads and complements ...
... complement - head structures and final in head complement structures , as proposed in PP , a trochaic grouping indi- cates a complement - head structure while an iambic grouping indicates a head - complement structure . Since the ...
... complements . 23 This is not to say that prominence within os is the only cue to the rel- ative order of words . Distributional cues appear to be exploited as well : it has been proposed that a frequency - based bootstrapping mechanism ...
Contents
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Chapter 3 The Syllable and the Foot | 61 |
Chapter 4 The Phonological Word | 109 |
Chapter 5 The Clitic Group | 145 |
Chapter 6 The Phonological Phrase | 165 |
Chapter 7 The Intonational Phrase | 187 |
Chapter 8 The Phonological Utterance | 221 |
Chapter 9 Prosodic Constituents and Disambiguation | 249 |
Chapter 10 Prosodic Domains and the Meter of the Commedia | 273 |
Chapter 11 Conclusions | 299 |
Bibliography | 305 |
Subject Index | 319 |
Language and Rule Index | 322 |
Name Index | 325 |