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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... Definition of the intonational phrase domain 187 7.2 . Restructuring of the intonational phrase 193 7.3 . Segmental rules in the intonational phrase 205 7.3.1 . Italian 205 7.3.2 . Spanish 7.3.3 . Greek 7.4 . Conclusions 211 213 216 ...
... defined in PP play in the processing and acquisition of language . It is our hope that these observations , in ... definition as well as the geometry of the hierarchy itself . Linguists working on languages Foreword to the second edition.
... defined as being " purely phonological " , that is , not involving an interface with other components of grammar . We also leave for further research and discus- sion the largest constituent ( i.e. the Phonological Utterance ) , since ...
... definition of linguistic constituent as a particular type of string with clearly and uniquely identifiable prop ... defined PW constituent . " Indeed , such a problem can also be seen with compounds , which are frequently analyzed ...
... defined linguistic string for both the PW and CG . The issue of restricting the theory must still be addressed , and we propose that this be can be done by strictly limiting the applicability of the proposed innovation . Specifically ...
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 |