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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... deletion of / g / in the third and fourth words , but not in the first and second words , can now be accounted for by a simple rule that operates only before word boundaries : g → / [ + nas ] ____ # . According to this formulation , g ...
... speech , which often lead to sequences not otherwise permitted in the language , such as certain cases of Vowel Deletion in American English , as in the pronun- ciation [ phtherǝ ] for the word potato , and Preliminaries 23.
... Deletion rule of Italian that deletes an unstressed vowel before another vowel only when the vowels are separated by a morpheme juncture . Thus , the rule applies in the words in ( 4a ) , but not in those in ( 4b ) .2 ( 4 ) a . fama ...
... Deletion ) , as illustrated in ( 7 ) . ( 7 ) - corre [ t : ] o ione → corre [ t : s ] ione ' correction ' - distin [ t ] o ione → distin [ ts ] ione ' distinction ' ' damnation ' danna [ t ] o - ione → danna [ ts ] ione3 Affrication ...
... deletion rules of Greek discussed in Kaisse ( 1977 ) . The first rule , Unrounded First Vowel Deletion , deletes the final vowel of word , in a sequence word , word2 if the vowel is unrounded and word , also begins with a vowel , but ...
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 |