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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... for by a simple rule that operates only before word boundaries : g → / [ + nas ] ____ # . According to this formulation , g - Deletion appears to be a purely pho- nological process , although this rule , in fact , Preliminaries 3.
... formulated only once in Universal Grammar . ( 1 ) Prosodic Constituent Construction Join into an n - ary branching XP all XP - 1 included in a string delimited by the definition of the domain of XP . For the convenience of the reader ...
... formulation and application of phonolog- ical rules ( see Selkirk , 1980b ; Nespor , 1983 ) . Finally , it was suggested in Nespor and Vogel ( 1982 ) that the additional constituent structure found in binary branching trees might have a ...
... formulated in terms of an onset or rhyme can be ( at least ) equally effectively formulated in terms of a syllable ( see Vogel , 1985 ) . Thus , we are not claiming that onset and rhyme constituents have no role in phonology , but ...
... formulated as one of these three types , characterized as follows , where A and B are segments , one of which may be ... formulation of Defooting in English : ( 11 ) [ w [ zlocˇlolz ...... .. ] w → [ wlo CV ] o ... lw W W W W Closer ...
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 |