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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... node rhyme Received Pronunciation strong sentence syllable foot singular sonorant strident suffix syllabic trace phonological utterance verb vowel voice vce W weak ω W * [ + W ] WFC IX word phonological word word star diacritic feature ...
... nodes is such that one node is assigned the value strong ( s ) and all the other nodes are assigned the value weak ( w ) . Given that the internal structure of each prosodic constituent is charac- terized by the same geometrical ...
... node must be created , as illustrated in ( 5b ) . No such intermediate structure exists in the n - ary branching structure in ( 5a ) . ( 5 ) a . b . Y X , The extra ( circled ) node in the binary branching tree represents a level of ...
... node branched and the direction of branching of the tree ( see among others , Liberman and Prince , 1977 ; Wheeler , 1981 ) . It is interesting to note that the binary structures and assignment of s and w to the sister nodes in such ...
... node of a syntactic tree . In addition , it is necessary to distinguish simple ( underived ) words from complex ( derived and com- pound ) words . In this regard , furthermore , the rules that build phonolog- ical structure must have ...
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 |