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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... languages other than Italian 177 ... 6.4.1 . Other right recursive languages 177 6.4.2 . Left recursive languages 182 6.5 . Conclusions 184 Chapter 7. The intonational phrase 187 7.0 . Introduction 187 7.1 . Definition of the ...
... . Metrical rules 285 10.3.2 . Prosodic rules 10.4 . Conclusions 289 295 Chapter 11. Conclusions 299 Bibliography 305 Subject Index 319 Language and Rule Index 322 Name Index 325 Preface - This book is the result of a series X Contents.
... languages . Instead , we have attempted to provide a broader basis for our claims and thus have exam- ined phenomena in over twenty - five languages , making use of grammars , previous linguistic analyses , and , whenever possible ...
... languages and types of phono- logical phenomena based on the fundamental concepts of the prosodic hierarchy and its ... language . It is our hope that these observations , in combination with the original text , will continue to provide ...
... language acquisition , linguistic perception and production and lan- guage processing . As with any area of research , available information and views change over time . One interesting aspect of such change has come in the area of ...
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 |